Wine Cellar tasters determine top luxury white wines
Wine Cellar - with expert palates Roland Peens and James Pietersen - recently hosted its second luxury white taste-off, which saw 74 tasters assemble in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Ten of South Africa's most expensive wines were blind-tasted and ranked by the public tasters in order of their favourite, to their least favourite.
The order of the wines was random and tasters were unaware of the line-up. The results from Johannesburg were combined with those from Cape Town and the live announcement was made to tasters in both cities over Skype as well as on social media.
400 Gabriel Glasses and the most expensive white wines in S.A. #WineCellarLuxuryWhite pic.twitter.com/6P5r7wbc12
— Roland Peens (@WineCellarRSA) March 7, 2018
The luxury red wine tasting will take place on 18 April in the same format.
Johannesburg Top Three:
- Ken Forrester, FMC Single Barrel 2014 – R 700
- Capensis, Chardonnay 2014 – R 950
- Sadie Family, Palladius 2015 – R 725
Cape Town Top Three:
- Capensis, Chardonnay 2014 – R 950
- Ken Forrester, FMC Single Barrel 2014 – R 700
- Paul Cluver, Seven Flags Chardonnay 2016 – R 610
Overall results:
- Capensis, Chardonnay 2014 – R 950
- Ken Forrester, FMC Single Barrel 2014 – R 700
- Paul Cluver, Seven Flags Chardonnay 2016 – R 610
All wines tasted during the luxury white wine tasting:
1 | Spier | Franks K Smit | 2015 |
2 | Reyneke | Natural Chenin Blanc | 2016 |
3 | Sadie Family | Palladius | 2015 |
4 | Raats | Eden High Density Chenin Blanc | 2015 |
5 | Ken Forrester | The FMC - Single Barrel | 2013 |
6 | Paul Cluver | Seven Flags Chardonnay | 2016 |
7 | Uva Mira | Icon Chardonnay | 2014 |
8 | Leeu Passant | Stellenbosch Chardonnay | 2015 |
9 | Capensis | Chardonnay | 2014 |
10 | Delaire Graaff | Terrace Block Chardonnay | 2015 |
Complete Wine Cellar tasting schedule for January-April 2018.
