Grangehurst Winery

It’s always fun to share the tasting table with the government official tasked with doing the due diligence. Everyone is on their toes and trying to answer questions they clearly never knew existed. That was the case today, but they nevertheless managed to offer me an informed tasting. I like how they only release older vintages and how their Cape blend Rose is made in a heavy style. I actually liked their ’03 pinotage which for my palate is surprising. It did have a bit of Cab in it…

While the wines are excellent, especially the Pinotage & Nikela (a Cape blend), the tasting experience, held in a small room labelled “Reception” feels a trifle perfunctory. If you are in search of serious reds, this is worth a visit, if you would like an holistic wine-farm experience, try Longridge, just up the dirt road.

Wonderful tasting experience. Small intimate and really worth visiting. Very warm tasting staff – loved the Nikela.

So this little place, some big wines…. all the wines spending over 15 months in wood except for the Cape rose blend which is very refreshing and goes down very well on a warm or hot day! the other wines are very well structured and balance. the Pinotage being great with a dash of Cab due to the old history… find out by taking a visit to the farm! the other blends Nikela, Cab/Merlot blend and the flagship Grangehurst wine, spent 33 months in the barrel and time in their did amazing things to it! these wines made with love and will last so much longer still!

Seriously Great wines!! Loved the Nikela and the fact that we could purchase some older vintages. The Rose is interesting.

Great wines with serious ageing potential. Can only taste 3 of the wines, which excluded the much vaunted Pinotage.

Our host Alex was friendly and informative. I enjoyed the Rose and the Nikela a lot. Well aged wines made with love!

The wines speak for themselves – this is an unbelievable little boutique wine farm worth the visit! The Nikela 2001 is particularly special!

Wow!! One of the many farms that goes unnoticed and deserves a spot amongst my favourite ‘keep-it-simple-and-sublime’ wine farms! Their wines should be on every wine list in the world which not only strikes you with utter flavour overload but also uber enchantment. Love the farm & love the wine!

If you’re ever on the R44 between Stellenbosch and Somerset West do yourself a fovour and take a left turnoff on a dirt road just after Eikendal (heading towards Somerset West). Go down that road a few hundred meters and take another left. Pass a house on your right and park on the tennis court on your left… You’ve now reached GRANGEHURST Winery.
It’s little wineries like these that make me love the Stellenbosch wine route so much. It’s just a pitty they’re hidden and no one really know’s about them. Well, now you do!
After just passing the winery on the way to Longridge we decided to turn back and have a look at what’s going on here (as a few cars were parked on the tennis court). We were welcomed by the winemaker Jeremy Walker, a member of CWG and a very pleasant guy, as well as by the tasting assistant (who’s name I can’t remember… maybe Elsebie). The service was great. And the wines? Well, all I’m gonna say is: “They were above average”… Now you’ll have to go there for yourself to see just how good they are.
Enjoy!

Dié wynplaas was ons tuiste vir die Helderberg Wynfees. Die ses lede van ons proe-geselskap het ‘n ruim kothuis, of eerder woning, op die plaas betrek met ‘n uitsig oor die wingerde heen met Tafelberg tot Kaappunt in sig.

Jeremy Walker was ‘n uitsonderlike gasheer en die ruim akkommodasie is sterk aan te beveel – baie goed toegerus, silwerskoon en sentraal geleë vir wynproe! Jeremy maak ook uitsonderlike wyne, die nimlike Nikela seker die bekendste. Op die feesprogram was ‘n vertikale proesessie met wyne vanaf 1995 tot 2 000! Middagete was ingesluit, asook natuurlik die geselskap van die Walker egpaar.

Ons het ongelukkig slegs ‘n smakie van die akkommodasie gekry, en sal graag wil terugkeer om Jeremy se hoogsaangeskrewe wyne te proe!