“Imagine a bolt of silk cloth. Visualise holding the fabric in your hand,” suggests Richard Schroeder, winemaker at Groot Phesantekraal. “It’s light but substantial - almost tensile - but also accommodating and generous in the way it drapes and assumes the shape of the garment it’s intended for. It has a slight spring. Crush it,…
From serendipity to strategy or turning a happy accident into a main character. That’s the plot line of the Chenin Blanc story emerging from leading Durbanville wine estate Groot Phesantekraal.
Durbanville is generally and deservedly renowned for Sauvignon Blanc, a grape that thrives under cool climate conditions. While still fully embracing the advantages of location…