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4.12 Winemaking and Environmental Issues.....................................39 5. Wine Packaging 5.1 Bottles and Bottling.......................................................................42 5.2 Labels and Labelling......................................................................43 5.3 Closures.......................................................................................46 5.4 Boxes...........................................................................................47 6. Marketing............................................................................................................48 7. Conclusion...........................................................................................................51 References...............................................................................................................53 Appendix A Mary-Lou’s CWM Questionnaire.....................................................56 Appendix B Useful Websites................................................................................................60 Appendix C Suggested Further Reading..............................................................61 Appendix D Suppliers’ List..................................................................................63 Appendix E Cost Price of a Bottle of Wine-An Example......................................... 72 Appendix F Further Education..........................................................................73 Appendix G Registration Form-SAWIS...............................................................................75 Registration Form-SARS .................................................................................76 Registration Form-Trademark.........................................................79 6
1. Introduction Brief History The godfather of the garagiste movement was a man called Jean-Luc Thunevin. This former forestry worker, bank clerk, restaurateur, and disc jockey had set up as a successful wine merchant in picturesque St. Emilion, selling bottles with grand labels from the local vineyards. One day he thought to buy a vineyard without a grand label, one that history had never heard of. Zero reputation; total quality. Surely they‟d be a market for that. 3 He was not the first on the Right Bank to make what came to be known as garage wines; Francois Mitjaville did it with Tertre Roteboeuf; Jacques Thienpont with Le Pin. “But they were part of established families and did it quietly. I had to make a noise because I was unknown,” says Thunevin. 4 In 1989, Jean-Luc and wife Murielle bought a few modest parcels of vines. In 1991, a former garage in the back streets of St. Emilion became his cellar, Chateau Valandraud, named after Murielle whose maiden name was Andraud. Garage wine was born. “The true garagiste is someone who has no other possibilities because he has no money, no big vineyards. He just has to do the best he can because he has to live off the sale of 3000 bottles. For me, that‟s a garagiste; that‟s the pure spirit of the garage.” 5 In 1995 Valandraud got a better score from influential American wine critic Robert Parker than the legendary Chateau Petrus. Valandraud had in guts what Medoc powerhouses had in budget. Small was standing tall. “The recipe isn‟t very complicated”, states Thunevin. Halve the normal yield; tackle the problems in the vineyard by physical labour rather than chemicals; pluck and arrange the leaves on the vines meticulously to make each one a high-performance ripening machine; take whatever risks are necessary with the weather to get the grapes fully ripe; pick and sort the grapes carefully; use wild yeasts; spotless wooden vats and new wooden barrels in the cellar. 6 The garage gold rush has spread far and wide. Bordeaux over the past dozen years has been peppered with many brand new small scale outfits. Pingus from Spain, Tenuta di Trinoro from Italy, and Screaming Eagle from California are all micro-producers receiving cult status and high ratings these days, along with Eben Sadie with his Columella and Palladius wines right here at home. Many small-scale but ambitious and passionate winemakers in South Africa now describe themselves proudly as garage winemakers. 7
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9) Briefly, how do you make your wi
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Appendix C Suggested Further Readin
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Appendix D Suppliers The following
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Bottles New Consol Ltd Northern Div
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Mobile Bottling and Labelling Mobbo
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Freight Forwarders/Export JF Hilleb
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Lallemand South Africa PO Box 3542,
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Appendix F Garagiste Winemaking Cou
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