Glenwood Vineyard in Franschhoek with DP Burger | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- An introduction to Glenwood Vineyards by DP Burger. DP talks about the very particular climate in the Robersvlei valley. the many different soil types they have, about the vineyards and the grape varieties, and also on how old the vines can become and diseases in the vineyard.
Is climate, soil or winemaker the most important? Well, winemaking is 99% terroir, says DP. There are limits to what you can do in the cellar. If you don’t have good fruit, you can’t make good wine.. You can’t really separate climate from terroir. Climate is important. You can have perfect soil but if you don’t have the right climate it won’t work.
And a bit of history on South African wine making. After apartheid finished there was huge demand for red wines so everyone started to plant cabernet and syrah. Not always on the right soils
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
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Wine Touring Visiting Glenwood Vineyards | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- A visual video to show you how a winery visit in Franschhoek in South Africa can be. Wonderful!
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
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Booze Traveller: Best Vineyards in Stellenbosch and Franschhoek - South Africa
I am presenting an exclusive selection by myself of my favourite vineyards in the Wester Cape, all within a day tour from Cape Town.
Our tour was arranged by Tsiba Tsiba: tsibatsiba.co.za
All Vineyards as per my video:
Allee Bleue: alleebleue.co.za
La Motte: la-motte.com
Spier: spier.co.za
Moreson: moreson.co.za
Glenwood: glenwoodvineyards.co.za
Vrede en Lust: vnl.co.za
Glenwood Vineyards unoaked chardonnay | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- DP Burger, winemaker, on the Glenwood Vineyards’ unoaked chardonnay. The wine is made in stainless steel tanks only, no barrels, but with some winery work to make it more interesting, like stirring on of the lees. It is a refreshing aromatic chardonnay. Recorded in March 2017 so the vintage tasted would be the 2016. It is a wine that is delicious on its own but that also works very well with for instance seafood, sushi any many other things.
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
One of many great experiences you can have on a wine and food tour to in South Africa with BKWine Tours, the specialist in wine travel and gourmet travel. We make sure you get a once-in-a-lifetime unique experience when visiting wine country regions, wineries, vineyards, and chateaux, and when meeting winemakers.
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Nobel rot Semillon, Glenwood Noblesse | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- Glenwood winemaker DP Burger presents a rare Semillon cuvee. The wine is late harvest noble rot and a blend of the 2013 and 2014 vintage. Doing the noble rot semillon didn’t work in 2015 or 2016. DP will also try and make it in 2017, weather will determine if it is a success. It is a very late harvest with very low yields. Hand-picked, labour intensive, harvested around mid April.90-95 litres per ton compared to 600 litres for a normal grape pressing. DP made only 3 barrels in 2013 and 3 in 2014. The wine is a blend of the two. It has 160 grams per litre residual sugar and 8.5 g natural acidity. The grape blend is mainly semillon with 20 % sauvignon blanc and a tiny bit of noval. To be allowed to call it noble rot late harvest it must have a balling (brix) of over 32 according to the rules (which is a minimum of 17.7 baumé, or 17.7% potential alcohol).
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
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Glenwood Vigneron Selection Chardonnay | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- Glenwood Vineyards winemaker DP Burger talks about the Vigneron Selection Chardonnay. It has spent 12 months in new French oak barrels. They make three styles of chardonnay: unoaked, Vigneron selection that is in oak one year, and Grand Duc that has spent two years in barrel. The wine is very food orientated. They do malolactic fermentation but the citrusy character is still there. Most barrels are made in French oak. They were also experimenting with Hungarian oak (in 2016) which showed promising results.
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
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When to pick the grapes? At Glenwood Vineyards | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- DP Burger, winemaker at Glenwood vineyard talks about one of the winemaker’s most difficult and most important decisions: Deciding when to pick is perhaps the most difficult for a winemaker. To decide when to harvest.
There are many factors that are taken into account when deciding when to harvest: the taste of the grapes, analytics (measurement of eg sugar, gut feeling etc. Taste is especially important for some grape varieties. The analytics is an important indication of the phenolic ripeness.
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
One of many great experiences you can have on a wine and food tour to in South Africa with BKWine Tours, the specialist in wine travel and gourmet travel. We make sure you get a once-in-a-lifetime unique experience when visiting wine country regions, wineries, vineyards, and chateaux, and when meeting winemakers.
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Glenwood Shiraz | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- Glenwood Vineyards winemaker DP Burger talks about his Shiraz (2014 vintage). It is made to be supple and juicy, spicy, made to drink young, but you can age it 8-10 years. It is aged 18 months in 100% second fill barrels. Works perfectly with a 500g rumpstake. It is made (like the merlot) made in open top fermentation. Juicy, spicy. DP certainly doesn’t want make over-extracted wines and this is very much made with the fruit in focus.
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
One of many great experiences you can have on a wine and food tour to in South Africa with BKWine Tours, the specialist in wine travel and gourmet travel. We make sure you get a once-in-a-lifetime unique experience when visiting wine country regions, wineries, vineyards, and chateaux, and when meeting winemakers.
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Glenwood Syrah Grand Duc | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- DP Burger, winemaker at Glenwood, talks about his Glenwood Syrah Grand Duc 2014. This wine was previously made by bought in grapes, in order to have grapes from old vines, at least 20 years old. From 2015 it is 100% own grapes since their own vineyard has now reached sufficient age.
DP only uses wild yeast, zero filtration, Very light filtration, only 1200 bottles DP then leaves it for 24 months in 100% new French oak. This is, says DP, a more “old world” style syrah (reserving “shiraz” for his more “New World” style wine).
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
One of many great experiences you can have on a wine and food tour to in South Africa with BKWine Tours, the specialist in wine travel and gourmet travel. We make sure you get a once-in-a-lifetime unique experience when visiting wine country regions, wineries, vineyards, and chateaux, and when meeting winemakers.
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Footage of GlenWood Vineyards in Franschhoek, South Africa
Franschhoek Uncocked 2018
Took me a year to finally post this video, but here it is.
I hope you enjoy it. Editing this video has just reminded me how fun the festival is and I definitely want to go back this year.
Wine Farms visited:
1. Boekenhoutskloof
2. Haute Espoir
3. La Bourgogne
4. La Bri
5. Mont Rochelle
6. Black Elephant
7. Rickety Bridge
8. GlenWood
9. Leopard's Leap (not included in video)
10. Paserene
11. Boschendal
Place we stayed at: La Galiniere Guest Cottages
Grape picking in Glenwood Vineyard, Franschhoek (SA)
Glenwood’s new Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon cuvee | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- Glenwood winemaker DP Burger presents a new Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon blend 2016 that was launched early 2017. The previous year they had five stars in Platter for a 75% semillon 25% sauvignon, barrel fermented and barrel aged. Their new cuvee is an effort to bring forward the sauvignon blanc even more. They have previously also made a fresh and flinty sauvignon blanc, but not that perhaps does not bring forward sauvignons most exciting qualities. DP then started looking on a blend with more sauvignon and some sémillon. It is a 50 / 50 sauvignon-semillon. The sauvignon is made with reductive winemaking to bring out the flintiness, the semillon is made in an oxidative way. Released the wine early 2017, the first vintage 2016. The winery produces 75 000 bottles in total per year, a very small winery, which means that they must focus on quality, and quality alone. They also used to make a pure semillon.
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
One of many great experiences you can have on a wine and food tour to in South Africa with BKWine Tours, the specialist in wine travel and gourmet travel. We make sure you get a once-in-a-lifetime unique experience when visiting wine country regions, wineries, vineyards, and chateaux, and when meeting winemakers.
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Glenwood Grand Duc Chardonnay, oak barrels, organic growing | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- Glenwood Grand Duc Chardonnay presented by winemaker DP Burger. The Glenwood Grand Duc Chardonnay is made from the oldest vineyards on the farm, planted in 1983, that now has extremely low yields. They planned to uproot it due to the low yields but it won a five star in Platter so they decided to keep it. It spends 24 months in new French oak. Oak barrels have two purposes: give some oak character (vanilla) and oxidation. Only 1200 bottles are made. 100% malolactic fermentation, fermented with wild yeasts. With plenty of intense fruit that balances the oak.
And some words on organic and biodynamic farming in Western Cape, that in general is very difficult to do in South Africa. They are not organic certified; instead Glenwood is part of Integrated Production of Wine Grapes IPW, a group that is very strictly regulated.
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
One of many great experiences you can have on a wine and food tour to in South Africa with BKWine Tours, the specialist in wine travel and gourmet travel. We make sure you get a once-in-a-lifetime unique experience when visiting wine country regions, wineries, vineyards, and chateaux, and when meeting winemakers.
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Waverley Hills Organic Wines and Olive Estate, Tulbagh
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Glenwood Merlot | Wine Tours South Africa
*Come on a Wine & Food Tour with BKWine* --- Glenwood Merlot explained by DP Burger, the winemaker. Made in a selection of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th use barrels. DP Burger wants it to have a fruit driven style, not overpowered by oak. The berries are fermented in open-top containers. Manual punch down (piegage) is done frequently, and the wine is left to ferment until finished. The fermentation is done without temperature control so it can go up to around 30 C. Pressing is done when sufficient colour and tannins have been extracted. The grapes in the fermentation tanks on the video are actually syrah / shiraz but the same is done with the merlots. Also with a demonstration of how the punching down is done and the fermentation in open-top
Glenwood Vineyards is a winery in the Franschhoek district. The winemaker and boss is DP Burger. It is a relatively small vineyard focused on making high quality wines. They work mainly with sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chardonnay for the whites and merlot and syrah for the red wines. It is located in a separate valley away from the main Franschhoek valley, in the Robertsvlei Valley, a stunningly beautiful and quite secluded place. Its first wines were launched in 2000 although the first vines were planted much earlier.
One of many great experiences you can have on a wine and food tour to in South Africa with BKWine Tours, the specialist in wine travel and gourmet travel. We make sure you get a once-in-a-lifetime unique experience when visiting wine country regions, wineries, vineyards, and chateaux, and when meeting winemakers.
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Winemaker Marc Kent at Boekenhoutskloof in South Africa
The chief winemaker Marc Kent at Boekenhoutskloof Winery is a genius with a commitment to quality on all levels and in every detail. And the winery has become one of the most celebrated of all South African wineries today.
The old farm just outside the little town of Franschhoek in the Cape region, was created in 1776. It´s situated in a remote corner of the beautiful Franschhoek valley. The winery’s white-washed, Dutch-style farmhouse, once stood in an orchard of beech trees and from there it got its name. In 1993 the farm was bought and restored and a new vineyard planting programme was established.
The new owners of Boekenhoutskloof have revamped an ancient cellar, and have installed state-of-the-art equipment as well as a quality maturation cellar.
Let´s meet winemaker Marc and hear about how they created at wine concept based on traditions with an eye on the future.
The growth of wine tourism in South Africa
South Africa’s wine tourism industry continues to grow in recognition. The country is increasingly being recognized as a world class wine producer. Video produced and scripted by Benedict Pather. Camera: Wandile Tonqa. Editing by Andile Tokwayo.
Glenwood Vineyard Intro
Introduction to Glenwood Vineyard, Franschoek, South Africa by Hard to Find Wines
Arriving at Boekenhoutskloof - I have Forgotten how Beautiful this Country is...
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