Nederburg have done it again and walked away with yet another award for one of their wines.
The Nederburg Winemaster’s Reserve 2006 has just won the Lexus Shiraz Challenge Award for 2008.
Now this win and the indeed the wine is significant in a number of ways, some of which I will list for you now:
- A big producer, producing award winning wines in large volumes (great, great news for the industry)
- The wine retails for only R50 – making it very accessible
- Romanian Oak was used in the aging process imparting “an aromatic character and cinnamon and clove flavours” – very interesting indeed.
- The largest proportion of the grapes for the wine came from eight-year-old vines in Philadelphia
(north of Durbanville, off the N7 en route to Malmesbury) – I have never even heard of this region before.
Well I’m off to the shops to find me a bottle so that I can report back on how good it is.
Well done to cellarmaster Razvan Macici and his team for completely transforming Nederburg into an award winning estate again.
All we need now is for those large volumes of wine to find their way onto the supermarket shelves of foreign lands to seriously lift the reputation of everyday drinking South African wine to the level it deserves.
Website : Nederburg
For more info on South African wines visit : The Cru
Read about Nederburg’s recent Old Mutual Trophy victory here
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July 25th, 2008 at 8:34 am
If you are so passionate about the wine industry, why don’t you dig a little deeper and expose the unfair way the judging process for this competition works. I don’t want to take anything away from Nederburg, but the way certain wines were blatently placed ahead of others in the selection process deserves to be looked at. We are not doing the industry any favours by shutting-up about matters such as these.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
hi lenie
i understand your point on wine competitions – i have always been rather skeptical about competitions myself and have indeed done a lot of digging and arguing on my blog that at times there are some dodgy decision being made in competitions.
But at the end of the day its all speculation unless u are actually part of the tasting selection panel and see exactly how it all works.so i have refrained from that argument.
the reason i have highlighted nederburg’s win and their prior trophy this year is because it’s a massive deal for the South African wine industry. If we can produce award winning wine at large volumes then it’s a massive step forward to improving our reputation overseas.
the all blacks had their food poisoned before the ’95 World Cup – but no one cares. The Springboks won and that’s all that matters
i try not to take competitions too seriously – especially in wine, it’s such a personal and subjective thing. Competitions and their results should act merely as a guideline for consumers out there.
http://www.thecru.co.za
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