Posts Tagged ‘Prowein Show 2011’

Prowein Trade Fair Show

This Trade Fair ran for a period of three days.  Day number one seemed to bring the most eager clients, an assemblage of new faces and familiar faces.

Our Agents Stand at Prowein

Day two was equally exciting and then on the third day the fair took on a more casual feel with the less serious audience out and about exploring the world of wine – and it really was that! A meeting point for some of the best producers and some of the most important customers!

The size of the fair was intimidating of course and especially for me as it was my first visit to such an international wine trade fair;  And I certainly landed right at the Düsseldorf Prowein Show – one of the largest Wine Trade Fairs in the world! Read the rest of this entry »

What is on the agenda, now that almost all the grapes are in the cellar? …Besides still receiving some Kaaimansgat grapes from Villiersdorp for our Crocodile’s Lair Chardonnay 2011  – we are seeing off our harvest help Mackenzie from Canada on Tuesday evening with an internally arranged Pinot noir tasting, which will include some of the other interns from the valley and to round off  and thank the harvest team after all the hard work – Peter has arranged a barbecue at the picturesque location of the farm for us.

Peter

Mackenzie

Chris

Jessica

Today was a public holiday in South Africa (Human Rights Day) in the tasting room and as it was slightly less busy on this day in the cellar (we did not receive grapes, but the usual sugar analysis, pump overs etc. had to be done), we opened the tasting room – Peter and I were able to receive the visitors who had come from far to taste our wines.

We had many “So glad to find you open today!” and “We came especially to taste your wines, so happy you are open!” Read the rest of this entry »