NEDERBURG has been chosen as the Winery of the Year in the Platter South African Wine Guide, with an unprecedented five of its wines across the multi-tiered range earning five-star ratings in the 2011 edition.
The accolade, that the guide calls its “Super Award”, is given “in recognition of a wine-growing team, who in the opinion of the editor, are ambassadors par excellence for South African wine”.
In addition to its quintet of five-star wines, Nederburg also produced Platter’s best overall value and easy-drinking, “Superquaffer of the Year”, (the popular 2010 Foundation Lyric) underscoring the Paarl producer’s versatility in catering to a broad spectrum of wine lovers.
The five-star wines are the 2009 Ingenuity White (the third vintage in succession to earn a Platter five-star rating), the 2007 Ingenuity Red (Nederburg’s Italian blend), the 2009 Winemaster’s Reserve Noble Late Harvest, the 2009 Edelkeur sold exclusively on the Nederburg Auction and the 2009 Private Bin D253 Sauvignon Blanc/Chardonnay, also sold exclusively on the Nederburg Auction.
Cellarmaster Razvan Macici says: “Earning the title of Platter’s 2011 Winery of the Year is the most fantastic way of marking my first decade on the farm.
“It is a true tribute to the collective efforts of the wine-growing and wine-making team.”
In the 2010 edition of the guide, Nederburg earned two five-star ratings.
These went to the 2008 vintage of the Winemaster’s Reserve Noble Late Harvest and the Ingenuity White.
Macici works with Tariro Masayiti, who makes the white wines under his direction, and Wilhelm Pienaar, who similarly makes the reds, while Hannes van Rensburg and Henk van Graan are responsible for the vineyards supplying Nederburg.
