BLANKbottle Aasvoel 2020

“He is the buyer for this little vineyard but the 2014 crop was huge and his tanks were full. I bought what grapes he had left and the wine turned out to be fantastic! So obviously I would love to buy some every year, but the production of a normal year is not high enough to accommodate another buyer. So I became an Aasvoel – an Afrikaans word for a ”vulture” – sitting on a pole, watching the vineyard. If something falls off the truck, I pick it up (figuratively speaking of course!). In other words, if it is a high production year, I get some grapes. In 2015 I got nothing, 2016 and 2017 came and went and I was still sitting on the pole – eagerly watching. And then in harvest 2018 it came: the call “do you want to make another Aasvoel?” Total production 500 bottles – 100% Stellenbosch Verdelho. ” Producer’s note