This weekend's eagerly anticipated Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction, taking place at the Lord Charles Hotel. This event offers an opportunity to bid on rare and unique wines of excellence produced exclusively for the auction by 35 members of the prestigious Cape Winemakers Guild (CWG).
For the very first time, our Cederberg Concrete Egg Chenin Blanc 2023 is going under the hammer this year. A wine produced from the 23-year-old Five Generations Chenin Blanc block and crafted in an innovative concrete egg, it shows remarkable winemaking finesse. A premium selection of only 40 cases of 6 bottles, this wine was made exclusively for the auction. If you haven’t booked your tickets yet, this is an experience you won’t want to miss!
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Attend the auction and bid in-person or online from 4-5 October 2024. Book your tickets for the in-person event and enjoy delicious food from top local chefs and taste unique auction wines.
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Cederberg CWG Concrete Egg Chenin Blanc 2023
The palest yellow in colour. The wine leads with brilliant luminosity and a perfumed nose that reveals heady white blossoms, summer-ripe pears, crushed pineapple and a defined lime edge. The palate is chiselled with purity of fruit and a sense of weightlessness revealing additional notes of preserved ginger and crushed green peppercorns. This intriguing wine is beautiful in its purity and linearity and concludes with a succulent, savoury, lemon/lime cleansing finish.
The wine is showing beautifully now but will reward those with patience for many years to come. Be mindful not to serve this wine too cold and serve it in a bigger glass to allow these complex aromas to reveal themselves.
David Nieuwoudt’s Guild profile: The member behind the wine
David Nieuwoudt’s Cederberg Concrete Egg Chenin Blanc, crafted from the 23-year-old Five Generations block, offers pure, vibrant flavours of white blossoms, ripe pears, pineapple, and lime.
“Keep up the standard and improve the product. Learn from the past and from those who walked the path before you and those who are walking it at present. There’s just so much to learn.”
After completing his studies at Elsenburg Agricultural College in Stellenbosch, David worked at nearby Lievland for a year. At the end of 1996, he moved back to Dwarsrivier, the Nieuwoudt’s family farm in the Cederberg, where he took over the winemaking reins and started on his award-winning trajectory.
Never one to rest on his laurels or stand still for too long, David keeps entering new wine realms and adding interesting ventures to his already busy schedule. Longaví is a Chilean project with his friend Julio Bouchon. His other key projects include the internationally acclaimed Ghost Corner range, as well as the premium Five Generations wines, the Driehoek range (WO Cederberg) and two wines for the Waitrose Foundation in the UK. David also consults to a Swartland producer, Marras Wines.