THE TRUTH ABOUT SOIL
Ever wonder how one wine gets a tropical fruit flavour while another shows more minerality? The soil the vines are rooted in has a very big role to play and […]
Ever wonder how one wine gets a tropical fruit flavour while another shows more minerality? The soil the vines are rooted in has a very big role to play and […]
The next generation De Wets, despite being superheroes, struggle to hold up this enormous grape bunch. This whopper of Red Globe weighs 2.6 kg and was grown in the garden […]
Drum roll please…we have finished the harvest! It’s been hard work for the last few months but the grapes are finally out of the fields and into the cellar. We […]
We’ve had unusual weather this year with much more rain that normal. It means we have to be extra vigilant against two of the major dreaded vine diseases; downy mildew […]
“…sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.” William Shakespeare, Richard III They say there’s no such thing as a weed, it’s just a plant in the wrong place! Whatever […]
The annual lifecycle of the vineyard is dominated by pruning in winter, suckering in spring and of course harvest in the later summer. The Excelsior philosophy is that good wine […]
The Excelsior philosophy is that good wine is made in the vineyards – the winemaker can only succeed if he has the best quality basic ingredients with which to work. […]