John Spicer

The wine pairs well with red meat and game, as well as sweeter pork, duck and Asian style dishes with fruit coulis or spicy sauces.

Then, eighteen months in 300 litre French oak barrels: 15% first, 35% second and 50% third fill. Bottled on 4 February 2020.

The grapes from a select portion of a single vineyard block on Kleinood Farm (Block 7) were hand picked, at exactly the right time, on 13 March 2018. Shortly after, at arrival in the winery, they were sorted by hand three times before being transported, via gravity, into stainless steel fermenters where they spent 14 days at 26.50 degrees celsius.

The name Tamboerskloof means the valley (kloof) of the drums (tamboer). When the Dutch settled in the Cape in 1652 lookout posts manned with spotters were established on the hills and mountains around the peninsula. The first spotter was placed where the suburb of Tamboerskloof lies today. These spotters drummed the message of an approaching ship from one lookout post to the next until the farmers in the surrounding valleys heard the drums and proceeded to harvest their crops and hasten to Cape Town harbour with their wagons in order to meet the ship on arrival. Before moving to the Boland Gerard, Libby and their two children Spicer and Katharien lived in this Cape Town suburb for 25 years. Thus with the fondest memories and the need to acknowledge the happy years they had spent there they named their wine Tamboerskloof.