by Pieter Walser | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog
This is the 10 day pre-release of Sigh of Relief 2015, a Cabernet Franc from the Helderberg. Cabernet Franc is a very new favourite of mine. I’ve been working with grapes from this specific vineyard for 3 years and every year we get to know the flavour profile of Cab...
by Pieter Walser | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
Meet the man making mind-bending wine. If you worked at the BBC in the late Nineties, South African Pieter Walser may owe you an apology. After a friend wrote his CV “then spent two weeks explaining to me what was on it”, Walser hooked a job as assistant IT manager of...
by Pieter Walser | Sep 23, 2016 | Blog
I’ve just returned from a two week marketing trip to Sweden, UK and Ireland where exports are picking up nicely. I’ve come to realise that I need to be a bit quicker with releasing my wines locally. I would really like you to be one step ahead of the...
by Pieter Walser | Sep 15, 2016 | Blog
One of the most original and inventive wine producers I’ve come across is Pieter Walser of Blankbottle in Stellenbosch, South Africa but this is his zaniest concept yet. It’s a wine whose exact blend was determined by his brain patterns while he was tasting 21...