Upcoming Events

2017 Plett Wine & Bubbly Festival

The fourth edition of the Plett Wine & Bubbly Festival is scheduled for 25 & 26 November at the beautiful and iconic Plett Central Beach! Join our Weekly Sips.

Past Events

2016 Sasfin Plett Wine & Bubbly Festival

Year three of the Sasfin Plett Wine & Bubbly Festival – a celebration of our winelands and superb coastal wines and bubbly.

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2015 Sasfin Plett Wine & Bubbly Festival

Year two of the Sasfin Plett Wine & Bubbly Festival – a celebration of our winelands and superb coastal wines and bubbly.

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2014 Sasfin Plett Wine & Bubbly Festival

Year two of the Sasfin Plett Wine & Bubbly Festival – a celebration of our winelands and superb coastal wines and bubbly.

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About

Plettenberg Bay is South Africa’s smallest wine growing region with 58 hectares of the 100 000 hectares planted countrywide. Plett’s wine region is the country’s most easterly cultivar and stretches 57 km along the thin coastal strip from Packwood in Harkerville until Lodestone on the Redford Road in the Crags. It is small, young, exciting and thriving and there can be little doubt that it is South Africa’s most scenic wine region.

The first grapes in the area were planted by Peter Thorpe on his Bramon Estate in the Crags, on Plett’s west side. His property had the soils, slope and climate for wine so the decision seemed fairly logical. After tireless research, boldness in foresight and in choosing a renowned winemaker in Anton Smal, Plett’s first vineyard, Bramon, was born in 2000. Others followed, but slowly. Although today it seems that every second farm along this thin coastal strip is growing grapes, there are only 16 vineyards with ten producing farms that bottle their own wine.

Why visit the Plett Winelands?

• Bramon Wine Estate owners, Caroline and Peter Thorpe, planted the first grape vines in 2001.
• Plett is now recognised as one of South Africa’s “Wine of Origin” regions.
• The areas climate makes it more conducive to cooler-climate wines such as Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir varieties.
• The area currently creates 9 Méthode Cap Classique style wines – these are wines that are produced in the traditional Champagne method. The area has become known as a “Bubbly Route”.
• The alkaline level of the soils allow for the majority of our area wines to have very low sulphites – this is the “additive” that people often have reactions to (i.e. red complexion, allergic-type reactions).
• There are currently 16 wine farms in the area; from Harkerville to the Crags.
• Harvesting takes place between the months of February and April. It is dependent upon the amount of sugar currently it the grapes. The wine farms in the Crags area tend to harvest earlier as they are in an area with higher temperatures.
• There are currently 3 wine estates – farms that process and bottle their own wines. Bramon, Packwood and Plettenvale. All other wine farms produce and bottle their wines at the Bramon Wine Estate under the assistance of the master wine maker Anton Smal.
• Anton Smal was with Villiera Wines in the Franshoek region for more than 18 years before he was brought to Plett.
• Plett hosts an annual Wine & Bubbly Festival in early October. Participants taste wines from the different wine farms, enjoy music and locally produced artisan foods.
• All wine farms open to the public are within a 45 kilometre radius.
• You will find a very diverse terrain of wine farms all within the area; vines close enough to taste the salt from the sea, vines at the base of craggy mountains, vines at the edge of indigenous forests, vines amongst a dairy farm, vines in view of elephants and vines alongside orchards of olive trees and polo ponies.
• It may be the only place you can experience winelands by horse, carriage, cycle, self-drive, by shuttle or by foot.

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Wine Estates

There are as many as 16 wine estates in the Plett region and many provide wine tasting, some by appointment.

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Other Vineyards

Other vineyards in the Plett Winelands Region include:

• Fijnbosch Wine Estate
• Gilbrook
• Kraaibosch Kloof
• Lombard
• Nooitgedacht
• Olof
• Somca
• Springlights

Contact

For details on vineyards, events or general enquiries:

Contact: Patty Butterworth

Tel: 083 453 5331
Fax: 086 241 1975

Email: info@plettwinelands.com

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