The 2010 harvest is proving to be slightly tricky because our Western Cape weather is just not playing along nicely. Today for example, was hot and muggy and the heavens have just opened so the rain is pouring down. Not ideal weather for a harvesting season. As a result we haven’t managed to take more photos of the harvest, because the grapes are coming in quite slowly. But in the meantime we have chatted to (a rather busy) Thys, our red winemaker about the harvest, this is what he had to say:Â
“So far we received Pinotage, Merlot and Shiraz grapes. We are almost finished with the Pinotage and we’ll start on the Merlot shortly. The grapes are definitely coming in later than in 2009 because of the cool weather and today’s weather has made things challenging…. However, the quality of the Pinotage that has come in is amazing and from the Merlot grapes that we have seen, KWV Wines is expecting a good vintage from this year’s crop too
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We had a word with our viticulturists, Cobus and Unathi as well as Chief Winemaker, Richard Rowe about climate change and its effect on South African wines. This is what they had to say:
