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www.landskroonwines.com<br />
The de Villiers family of Landskroon has been making wine in South<br />
Africa for three centuries. Their Huguenot ancestor, Jacques de<br />
Villiers, who settled in the Cape with his two brothers in 1689, was<br />
a winemaker in Niort, France before emigrating to the Cape.<br />
The estate, one of the most beautiful in the Boland, nestles against<br />
the Agter-Paarl Mountain and offers an incomparable view of Table<br />
Mountain. Vines cover more than 180 hectares, 70% of which are<br />
red varietals. Of the white wines produced by Landskroon, the<br />
Chenin Blanc is extremely popular, with good ripe fruit flavours and<br />
well-balanced acidity.<br />
In recent years, Paul de Villiers’s ambition to produce top quality red<br />
wine has led to a large investment in the winery, with new stainless<br />
steel temperature controlled fermentation tanks, and new French oak<br />
barrels. Together with later-picked, ultra-ripe, new clone fruit, and<br />
techniques such as malolactic fermentation in barrel for red wines,<br />
the result has been a huge leap forward in quality, producing full,<br />
rich, ripe, fruit driven wines of international class.<br />
Renowned for its vintage port (for which Paul de Villiers was named<br />
Diners Club Winemaker of the Year in South Africa in 2000),<br />
Landskroon is now achieving acclaim for its table wines, particularly<br />
Shiraz and Merlot, while the 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon was given<br />
the best value award and four stars in Decanter’s March 2006 issue<br />
South African Cabernet Sauvignon tasting.<br />
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Tel: 01883 731173 Fax: 01883 731174 email: info@raisin-social.com Website: www.raisin-social.com
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