In his blog, Jamie Goode, multiple award winning wine journalist and wine judge, raved about De Grendel Winifred 2008, a blend of viognier, semillon and chardonnay, scoring it 91 points out of a possible 100.
Jamie Goode
De Grendel is an historic farm in the Durbanville wine ward and has belonged to the Graaf family for three generations. It is currently owned by Sir David Graaf and Charles Hopkins, member of the Cape Winemakers Guild is the cellar master. The first vintage was in 2004 which was vinified at Graham Beck cellars and from 2006 the wines were made at the De Grendel farm.
Winifred 2008 sells for R80.00 ($11) from the farm.
It is hard to dispute that white blends are the strength of the Cape wine industry. Tim James discussed this in his recent blog post Ten Amazing Years for Cape Wine and made the following comment:
Surely one of the finest and most exciting achievements of contemporary South Wine is the establishment of the white blend ……..
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