NEW RELEASES | Opstal: How to build a successful multi-generational wine business, one Chenin at a time

"Watter perd gaan jy op saal?" (Which horse will you saddle?) - Attie Louw, Opstal. 

In the Breedekloof, short of saddling a horse to practice their Gymkhana battle tricks (those Rawsonville guys are really into their horse events), if you're going to saddle anything to win a race, it should be Chenin Blanc. (Which suits Attie Louw of Opstal just fine. He doesn't care for horses and cultivates phenomenal Chenin.) Something Opstal, a 7th-generation wine farm in the Slanghoek ward of the Breedekloof, has embraced fully, with the introduction of two new site-specific Chenins (one old vine) to a portfolio that already includes two very successful Breedekloof Chenins.

The fact that they can make four distinctive Chenins from one farm, all the more reason to add to South Africa's growing number of internationally venerated Chenins.