2017

BLANKbottle 'Offspring'

•Rebel Pieter H Walser – breaking the rulebook

•30 different wines per year- 50% never repeated, has his own winery, no farm- negociant

•Buys from 58 Vineyards: 400 to 4,000 bottles per

•Boutique approach, buys wines he likes/ story

•Judge the wine by the taste- eg BLANK bottle, not by the label or varietal (2005 story selling Shiraz to someone who wanted anything but Shiraz)

•Old barrels, on lees, no suplhur, min intervention

•Sémillon from Elgin, Chenin blanc from Wellington and Verdelho from the Voor Paardeberg

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