Hailing from South Africa, Damascene is a relatively new project between winemaker Jean Smit and David Curl of Moya Meaker winery in Elgin. Associate Editor Claire Nesbitt was unexpectedly captivated by their semillon this week. Read more here: https://t.co/5kbwUKlGTH
Welcome to the home of Damascene Vineyards.
Be on the lookout for our new website, https://t.co/oMFnaHrCDA, that will be live from tomorrow evening - it’s a thing of beauty.
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That's a wrap, our last tank pressed for #harvest2021. Thank you to our harvest team for all their passion, hard work & for their impeccable attention to detail in both cellar & vineyard. Now the wines are on to the next journey as they rest & mature.
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On the nose, aromas of warm spiced peach, pear drops and subtle ginger captivate you and whet your appetite, bewitching notes of jasmine and dusty gravel roads peruse.
This is the kind of wine that intrigues your senses; after a few minutes of swirling and indulging in its expressive aromas, you dive deeper and deeper in awe of nature and the midwife who guided its journey from grape to your glass. Ambitious, complex, indulgent and gracious.
We picked this Swartland Syrah this morning, its vines densely packed in shale, a foliated sedimemtary rock that is known to populate some of the world's most uniquely expressive vineyard sites, producing exemplary, distinctive fruit.
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A true privilege to harvest from these vines. 20 years shy of a century's worth of growth, this Semillon was planted in 1942 in Franschhoek, a treasure vault for old vine Semillon.
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