By Christian Eedes, 7 April 2020
The Sweet Wine & Fortifieds Report convened by Winemag.co.za and sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient is now out. Wines were tasted blind (labels out of sight) by a three-person panel, scoring done according to the 100-point quality scale.
Number of entries per category
1) Natural Sweet – two
2) Noble Late Harvest – 10
3) Straw – four
4) Hanepoot – two
5) Muscadel – 10
6) Port – eight
Of the 36 wines reviewed in total, 27 rated 90-plus.
De Krans, Calitzdorp.
GlenWood Noblesse Grand Duc 2017
Highlands Road Noble Late Harvest 2017
Villa Esposto Muscat D’Alexandrie Straw Wine 2017
tasting notes for the top 10 wines
scores on the 100-point quality scale for all the other wines entered
To read it in full, download the following: Prescient Sweet Wine & Fortifieds Report 2020
Rudi Coetzee21 April 2020
Top ones such as Peter Bayly and Muratie don’t even enter these competition tastings
JS (Kobus) Wolvaardt19 April 2020
Plaas jy ook bydraes in Afrikaans? Een van my bottels 1960 KWV port het begin lek en my “verplig” om hom oop te maak, en ek het iets daaroor te sê.
Ons boer met pekans op die hoëveld, organies, en het natuurlik ‘n groentetuin en vrugteboord waarmee ons nog sukkel omdat gifstowwe my teen die bors stuit en die vrugtevlieg dit uitbuit. Ek het ‘n buurman (PhD chemie en ‘n rekenaar entoesias) wat ook al ‘n respektabele ouderdom bereik het en ek en hy stook perskebrandewyn met die vrugte wat ons verloor. Ons gebruik ‘n koperketel gemaak van ‘n ou geyser en die stokery word beheer met ‘n klein rekenaar (‘n “raspberry pi”, as dit vir jou sin maak) Moet dit net nie mampoer noem nie! Met die inperking het ek ‘n liter geelperskesap in die vrieskas ontdek. Die resultaat is my eie organiese pineau. Daaroor het ek ook iets te sê.
Laat weet of jy belangstel.
Christian Eedes20 April 2020
Hi Kobus, Baie bly om bydraes in Afrikaans te aanvaar. Brei asseblief uit.
Pierre7 May 2020
Baie bly om bydraes van pineau ook te aanvaar!
Jacques8 April 2020
Hi Christian, was there any particular reason for such a small representation number? I also noticed some great producers like Klein Constantia & Nederburg not represented, are some producers just declining to participate or what?
Christian Eedes8 April 2020
Hi Jacques, We charge an entry fee of R950 for our report tastings and it is entirely at the discretion of the producers whether or not they wish to participate. As has been discussed often in recent times, we employ a hybrid model of both blind panel tastings and sighted reviews conducted by me, the latter being a loss-leading activity and hence our ongoing request that readers should contribute to running costs.