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Overgaauw makes SA’s Top 100 wines!
Overgaauw Cape Vintage Port 1998 was selected as one of the winners at the recently held ‘Top 100 SA wines’ competition. As one of the few matured Cape Vintage Ports available on the market this 1998 port offers, tantalizing opulent flavours of creamy fruit cake with complex layers of tea leaves and honey comb adding to the experience. Luscious and hedonistic, but with a backbone that speaks of further cellaring potential. A wine that will create a memorable moment at any dinner table.
Overgaauw Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 received a 4 star rating in the April 2011 Wine Magazine.
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Overgaauw 1997 Cape Vintage South African Liqueur Wine (Stellenbosch) – I admire the attempt to avoid using the word “port,” but this seems a little convoluted. The wine, however, is anything but difficult. A burst – nay, a fireworks display – of berries, still structured but with nicely-maturing spices (clove, nutmeg), forward and fruity. “Port” is a category in which South Africans appear to take much pride, but I have to say that after tasted around a dozen on a recent trip, I found the category – and many of the big names – pretty mediocre. Not so this, a library release to contrast with the winery’s more current vintage, and already showing a sophistication and worldliness that many of its brethren lack. No, it’s not up to the full range of complexities in a true Port, but it’s also not done maturing. (7/09)
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Overgaauw 2008 Sauvignon Blanc (Stellenbosch) – Vibrant green things – herbs, stems, vegetables, leaves, grasses – poised at their ideal midpoint between the underripe harshness of pyrazines and softer impressions of tropicality (though there is a hint of pineapple as well). There’s minerality…large rocks, decidedly indelicate…and a fine balance. A bit outrageous, in a manner that will remind some quite strongly of Marlborough, but it’s fuller-fleshed than that. The more I taste, the more I agree with a number of South African winemakers who believe that, at the moment, their country’s most accomplished and terroir-revelatory wines are its sauvignon blancs. (7/09)
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An extract from Lynne and John of Main Ingredient's weekly 'MENU' of 10 June 2010 reporting on their media preview to this year's Stellenbosch Wine Festival:
Stellenbosch Festival Media Preview
Stellenbosch Wine Festival this year (1 – 4 July) will have a completely different slant. They are not using the Paul Roos high school but, for R160 a person, you will park your car and take a bus to your choice of 140 wine farms and experiences. The buses go to hubs and from there you can choose where to go next and what to experience....
Overgaauw came next and the van Veldens gave us a royal welcome into their charming Voorkamer, where we sat in front of another roaring fire and tried three vintages of their outstanding port - 1993, 1996, & 1998. We tried them with blue cheese marinated in port on ginger biscuits, roasted pecan nuts and a Lindt dark chocolate ball. What nice people and what a lovely end to a busy day. We think the newly released 98 will go on to win awards, as it is so complete as a port, showing all the right characteristics for drinking now but definitely good for laying down. And at about R125 a bottle, a very reasonable investment.
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