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Happy Easter!
Good Day Vondelingers, It's always great to get the last of the grapes off, pressed, and put to bed. We all think it was a very good harvest and expectations are high that 2022 will be a very good vintage. [...]
March is here!
Greetings Vondelingers, Harvest has been going well. We finished picking the white grapes yesterday and now we are into the reds at full speed. Everything is about a week to 10 days late, which is fine. This is our picking [...]
Harvest at Vondeling!
Greetings Vondelingers, Always great to see the back of a crappy month like January. We have had some blisteringly hot days in the last 3 or 4 weeks which has caused the grapes to ripen a bit more quickly. We [...]
Happy 2022😄
Greetings Vondelingers, Happy new year. May 2022 be a bit better than 2021! We all had a great festive season here and the Vondeling Christmas staff party was a wonderful occasion. Meanwhile, in the vineyards, the crop is looking fantastic. [...]
Seasons Greeting from Vondeling 🎅
Greetings Vondelingers, We have been going through our premium blocks and knocking of grapes to ensure maximum quality for our top wines. Below is a small Grenache Blanc block we use for our flagship white blend, Babiana! Â Â All [...]
Warming up in November☀
Greetings Vondelingers, We launched our 2018 Rurale Method Ancestrale last week at the beautiful Camps Bay Retreat. It was a wonderful event attended by members of the press, restauranteurs, and various players in the wine industry.  Our Cellarmaster, Matthew Copeland was interviewed [...]
Wine News
Bowwood Pinotage Does it Again
ABSA TOP 20 FOR BOWWOOD PINOTAGE Dear Vondeling Wine Club Members, Our Bowwood Pinotage has surely made its mark in only four vintages: the maiden vintage 2014 achieved 4.5 stars in the Platter’s Wine Guide; 2015 was awarded the Pinotage Trophy [...]
Vondeling Adds a New String to Bowwood Range with 2019 Bowwood Chenin Blanc
 Dancing with golden light, a kaleidoscopic spectrum of flavour, made to achieve its full potential over time. Vondeling Wines has extended their limited-release Bowwood range with the launch of a full-bodied, natural-fermented wooded Chenin Blanc – a luxurious wine that [...]
Vondeling Babiana 2019 achieves second Platter’s five-star rating
Starry honour for a stellar wine named for a rare and starry flower. Vondeling Wines has been awarded five stars in the 2021 Platter’s South African Wine Guide for Babiana 2019, a distinctive white blend aptly named for the rare [...]
2020 Harvest in Full Flight
Greetings Everyone Harvest is well under way as you can see below, with the lovely Bongiswa holding some chardonnay she has just picked. Quality so far looks great. Our cellar rats all arrived safely from overseas and are all now [...]
Vondeling Bowwood Pinotage 2016 is an Absa Top 10 Pinotage Winner
VONDELING 2016 Bowwood Pinotage has claimed a place as one of the best in South Africa with its first-ever win in the Absa Top 10 Pinotage awards announced at Boschendal today [SUBS: Wednesday, 14 August 2019]. The winning Vondeling Bowwood [...]
Vondeling Babiana: Celebrating a proud legacy and a rich diversity
Vondeling’s white flagship Babiana isn’t only a celebration of 360 years of winemaking in South Africa (the first wine was made in 1659 at the Cape of Good Hope), but it also celebrates the rich diversity of the Cape Floral [...]
