FAMILIEMOORD Vintage Taste-off 2023/2025 - 6 bottle case

Familiemoord 2025 - since the first vintage in 2013, this is the best vintage nature has given me in my winemaking career! A benchmark vintage for me.

This wine is a 100% Grenache Noir from the Piekenierskloof mountains. The 2025 differs slightly from the 2023. The change? We brought in another neighbouring vineyard - an even older one! Small bush-vines planted in weathered sandstone. 
 

So comparing the 2 vintages, I would say the 2025 is a bit more refined with more finesse and perfume. The 2023 is more grungy / cured meaty in comparison - more like a wine made in Southern France, than in South Africa. 

Today we are selling both vintages in a mixed case so you can have your own taste-off - ONLY 50 CASES AVAILABLE

A  MIXED CASE Familiemoord  2023/2025 consisting of: 

3 bottles Familiemoord 2023
3 bottles Familiemoord 2025

R1,740 for a case of 6

A new Behind-the-Harvest Short Film:

Playing harvest Tetris is an exciting challenge for me - picking 66 vineyards over 100 days at exactly the right time takes a lot of planning. It's not unusual for me to make 2 trips to the Swartland and 1 trip to Elgin in a day - a 540 km round trip (roughly).

Whilst I don't particularly mind the driving (great thinking time), waking up long before the birds every morning does kind of lose its charm towards the end of harvest.

So when, for the second day in a row this harvest, I had to be in Piekenierskloof by 6am (which is a 3-hour drive from my house!), Aneen suggested I sleep over the night before at a friend's remote cottage on the mountain.

So gesê, so gemaak. And the rest you'll have to see on the short film. Enjoy! Click below!