This super video, taken in our vineyards and surrounds, has just gone live on YouTube. The video was made by the talented Charles Lourens of http://www.bottleplatepillow.com . We are really pleased as the video truly conveys what we at Seven Springs are all about. Thank you Charles, you have done us proud.
A lovely write up about Seven Springs Vineyard from Colin Smith who blogs under the name of Grapefan. We met Colin at the London International Wine Fair recently and tasted our 2010 Sauvignon Blanc with him. This is the link to his blog.
http://grapefan.blogspot.com/2011/05/seven-springs-wine.html
Leading UK wine writer Jamie Goode has tasted and reviewed our 2010 Sauvignon Blanc. It is really heartening for us to get such a magical review for our first ever wine, especially considering that the wine is from such young grapes. http://www.wineanorak.com/wineblog/sauvignon-blanc/seven-springs-an-interesting-new-south-african-sauvignon
The second week of February 2011 has seen two reviews of our 2010 Sauvignon Blanc. Review one came from Mike Bampfield-Duggan of Wine Concepts, Newlands, Cape Town (http://www.wineconcepts.co.za) in Iafrica.com. and featured the wine as ‘Wine of the Week’.
http://food.iafrica.com/wine_of_the_week/705096.html
Review two came from acclaimed UK wine writer and co founder of the Wine Gang, Joanna Simon. Our Sauvignon Blanc was one of her three ‘WINES of the WEEK’.
http://joannasimon-wineandfood.blogspot.com/2011/02/wines-of-week-11-february-2011.html
Thank you Andrew Barrow for posting this review about Seven Springs on your Spittoon blog.
One thing I may not have said about the wine is that the grapes were from 3rd leaf vines, so very
young vines. We limited production because we want to make sure that the vines establish properly. I have spoken this morning to our winemaker, Riana, and she says that this years Sauvignon grapes will be harvested
either this Friday, or early next week. I feel as the vines develop you should see ‘more length’ in the finish. We have to benchmark ourselves against many excellent Sauvignon Blancs from around the globe (especially here in the UK market). Thank you very much again for posting this review and I very much look forward to meeting with you one day soon.
*Image courtesy of Andrew Barrow, Spittoon
This review of our Sauvignon Blanc has just appeared on a Cape Town blog site, Cape Town Wine. Thanks to Glenda van Blerk for the great review.
Having only been on sale for just two weeks we are proud to have been given so many positive responses to our first wine. Our 2010 Sauvignon Blanc has received all of these very positive reviews over the last few days.
http://www.kgbwine.co.za/2010/11/seven-springs-a-newbie-winery-of-note/
http://www.bottleplatepillow.com/blog/seven-springs-vineyards-makes-their-debut-entry/
http://blog.winecountry.co.za/?p=3942
http://blogs.food24.com/cathymarston/the-most-tweeted-wine-around
Thank you everyone. It makes us immensley proud of our winemker Riana van der Merwe and our vineyard manager Peter Davison. A small but highly effective team.
Our Sauvignon Blanc is now on sale in South Africa from Cybercellar (www.cybercellar.com) and The Wine Village, Hermanus (www.winevillage.co.za). 400 cases were collected on Wednesday afternoon for shipping to the United Kingdom.
Our Sauvignon Blanc 2010 was labelled on the 13th October 2010 and is now ready for the general public. We will ship 2,400 bottles of the wine to the UK and it should arrive in the last two weeks of November. 2,000 bottles will be left in South Africa for sales there and also back up stock to go with our Chardonnay when that is ready in early 2011. So far tastings of our Sauvignon Blanc 2010 have received a big ‘thumbs up’. A big thanks to Fiona Phillips from Cybercellar in Franschhoek, Western Cape, (http://www.cybercellar.com) for saying she will sell our wines from day 1 and also helping us import our wines into the UK.
Our first wine
Friday the 6th of August 2010 is a momentous day in the history of Seven Springs Vineyard as it was the day we bottled our first ever wines, our 2010 Sauvignon Blanc. A total of 4,300 bottles of the wine were bottled at Iona Vineyards, www.iona.co.za, in Elgin. Our wines will spend a couple of weeks recovering from ‘bottle shock’, then be labelled and made available for sale within South Africa and the UK.
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