This year, the competition attracted 136 entries from all South Africa’s major wine-producing regions. The winning wines were produced at nine cellars in the Cederberg, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Swartland, Tygerberg, Durbanville, and Darling.
Each cellar received R25 000 in prize-money to be used for the economic and social upliftment of farmworkers.
“This sponsorship goes further than just the recognising the winners, but it also creates a great opportunity for the prize-money to [be ploughed] back into projects for their local communities,” said Willie du Plessis, Standard Bank SA’s executive head of business banking in the Western Cape.
This year’s top scoring wines were:
- Cederberg: Private Cellar Five Generations Chenin Blanc 2015 (debut)
- DeMorgenzon: Reserve Chenin Blanc 2016
- Fleur du Cap: Unfiltered Chenin Blanc 2016 (debut)
- Nederburg: Heritage Heroes The Anchorman Chenin Blanc 2016 (debut)
- Perdeberg Winery: The Dry Land Collection Courageous Barrel Fermented Chenin Blanc 2016
- Spice Route Chenin Blanc 2016 (debut)
- Spier Wines: 21 Gables Chenin Blanc 2016
- Stellenrust: 52 Barrel Fermented Chenin Blanc 2016
- Stellenrust: 51 Barrel Fermented Chenin Blanc 2015
- Windmeul Kelder: Chenin Blanc Reserve 2016 (debut)
