Cape Winemakers Guild Showcase - get out your glasses

Auction at Spier

The showcase offers wine lovers the opportunity to taste this year's line-up of outstanding Cape Winemakers Guild wines along with a selection of the members' own flagship wines. All the wines that will go under the hammer at the Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction at Spier in October this year, are made exclusively for the auction and selected meticulously by members of the Guild to represent the apex of South African winemaking achievement.

Unlike the wines bottled under the members' own labels, the Guild's Auction wines are selected at a blind tasting and only those showing technical excellence and maturation potential are chosen. This thorough process ensures that every wine boasting the CWG Auction label is of exceptional quality.

Johan Malan pours Elizma van Lill a glass of wine.

Wine lovers and collectors can look forward to bidding on rare wines from previous auctions, signed by the winemaker, as well as members' own cellar gems at a Silent Auction held at the Showcase. Proceeds from the Silent Auction will go towards the Nedbank CWG Development Trust. Founded in 1999, the Development Trust assists with education, training and empowerment of aspiring winemakers and includes the Guild's Protégé Programme, a mentorship scheme for young, upcoming winemakers.

The Nedbank CWG Auction is open to the public and will take place on Saturday, 02 October at 9am at the Spier Conference Centre in the Stellenbosch Winelands. Telephonic and proxy bidding services are available to any interested parties unable to attend the Auction.

2010 Silent Auction Wines:

For bookings call +27 (0) 21-852 0408, email moc.dliugsrekameniwepac@sgnikoob or visit www.capewinemakersguild.com. Tickets to both events cost R150 and include a tasting glass and can be bought at the door.