Taaibosch: The Stellenbosch Estate That Makes Only One Wine | South Africa Series Part 2 of 5

Taaibosch makes one wine. No second label, no entry-level bottling, just Crescendo, a Cabernet Franc-led blend from the slopes of the Helderberg.

The South Africa Series continues in Stellenbosch with the Taaibosch winemaking team: cellar master Schalk-Willem Joubert, Petri Venter of Le Chant, and Heinrich van der Watt of Pink Valley. Schalk-Willem explains how elevation and a cool ocean breeze off False Bay shape a red built for freshness rather than extraction. Petri compares the gentler Le Chant site and its Merlot-led blend. Heinrich tells how a neighbor's Sangiovese ended up as the backbone of a Provence-style rosé. Then the three of them explain how they decide when to pick (taste first, analysis second) and what they argue about most.

Taaibosch was once Cordoba, home of the original Crescendo, a cult wine of the 1990s. The Oddo family of France bought the property and renamed it Taaibosch, and Schalk-Willem, formerly CEO of Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons, now leads the estate and its sister wineries Le Chant and Pink Valley.

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