Unusual wines in the cellar
Anyone who knows Jeremy, knows that he likes creating wines that are not run of the mill – Viognier, Roussanne, and Grenache are good examples. When offered a few tons of unusual grapes, he is unlikely to say no. This past week, he took delivery…
Wine and wanderings around KZN
While Emma was preparing for ProWein in Germany, Jeremy was roaming around KZN with our reps in the region. One of the visits included Blackstrap in Ballito, where our Lycaon Grenache will soon be available. Olive and Oil in Umhlanga will be listing our Den…
Launching Guillermo Swartland Pinotage 2014
Our Swartland Pinotage ‘Guillermo’ 2013, with its velvety ripe blueberry, mulberry, exotic spice and creamy vanilla flavours is almost sold out. We are proud to announce that we will be launching Guillermo Swartland Pinotage 2014 at Prowein. We invite you to come and taste it…
Wine, woman power and singing praises
Wine Last week, the team had rather a hectic week. The amazing Mourvèdre and Shiraz grapes growing at Kasteelsig vineyard in the Swartland were ripe and ready to be made into intense flavourful wine. At the same time, Jeremy had to be up in Jo’burg…
News from the African Wildlife Conservation Fund
Jeremy got the following news from the African Wildlife Conservation Fund: A successful denning season What a wonderful denning season we had down in the Zimbabwean Lowveld in 2017. Our scouts were kept on their toes monitoring the 21 (out of 27) resident pack…
Wanderings at harvest time
Our pack Whatsapp group recently went on a pinging bonanza as Jeremy shared his photos from the field. He had taken a cycle to Leeuwenkuil and Langvlei to check on the state of the grapes before he briefly flits off to London for the North…
Vote for beauty
For the third year in a row, Painted Wolf Wines have stepped up as sponsors of Nature’s Best Photography Africa. This exhibition of spectacular photographs is on at the Iziko South Africa museum until March 4, 2018. There are so many reasons we are happy…
Wild dog news from Painted Dog Conservation
Jeremy subscribes to the Painted Dog newsletter and received this news from Peter Blinston: 2017 came crashing to an end for all of us at PDC. In the past weeks, we have witnessed the tragic demise of the Mabuyamabhema pack, who succumbed to rabies. Our desperation…
Happy Doggy days
Wine Wow! We have had quite a year! Our 10th birthday heralded an increase in sales, a new website and some very nice awards. Thank you to all of you who are such steadfast fans of our wines. It is you who spread the word…
November – update from KZN
Jeremy received this month’s update from Cole Du Plessis of the EWT – it continues the saga of the wild dog population in KZN: “November has been a fruitful month in maintaining and expanding South Africa’s wild dog metapopulation. The greatest highlight of all was…