Resumé of the life of an independent wine maker in 2021!

News from our visit to Noble Hill Winery South Africa

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Lockdown update from a South African Vineyard

We are now 157 days on from lockdown - new updates from our suppliers have arrived .....

Who would have thought when I started blogging at the end of March that the world would still be in turmoil 150 days later!

Obviously the first few weeks were just terrible not being allowed to sell, export or even bottle wine.

We expect the next harvest will be smaller as sales is down drastically especially on the Sauvignon Blanc and Blanc de Noir wines. The rest

Today we have 6 bottles of Rosé in the store - panic not tomorrow we have a delivery.

A famous saying in our house is "You can't go wrong with a Côtes du Rhône" and wines from Domaine André Berthet Rayne prove this is true.

Well what a start of the year !!!

Our perception-home consumption of alcoholic drinks will increase as large numbers of the hotel and restaurant trade closes down permanently

The pandemic has probably led to our business becoming even more personal, where you can always have a nice chat with the winemaker."

We hope that tourism will re-start in July and that should help!

Sebastien is working with a skeleton staff, as the work in the vines continues.

Read on to see what Kristopher the owner and winemaker says as to how Noble Hill is continuing to function at this time.