On a scorching hot day in January the Glamour team photographed fashionable knit wear at Spier Wine Farm.
Spier introduces Danie de Kock
Sales Manager Danie de Kock joined Spier in September 2011, and dreams of travelling to Manhattan, New York, Broadway and Central Park.
Goodness from our garden
Frank McKinney Hubbard said “In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it,” and Chef Lolli and Farmer Angus takes this advice to heart.
9 Facts about our Tasting room
In December we opened our new wine tasting room – a large double-volume building with light streaming in through the glass doors, maximizing the view of the Helderberg Mountains.
A view on Spier’s 2012 vintage
Viticulturist Johan Smit tracked down a 40 year old chenin blanc bushvine vineyard in Durbanville, from which we will harvest the first time this year.
The 'new' old block has a view of Table Mountain and the Atlantic ocean!
Farm to fork at Spier
Executive chef Lorianne Heyns recently returned from the kitchen of Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse in Berkley, CA. She shared her experiences with us in Lolli learns from the Leaders, and TASTE magazine caught up with her to find out more.
Read the article on page 22 of TASTE January 2012, or click on the article below to download it.
Live Love in a bottle
A few years ago, we had excess stock of a very unique – and expensive – bottle after a cancellation of a scheduled Noble Late Harvest bottling. The operations team brainstormed ideas of how to re-use the bottle and decided that filling it with olive oil would be the best choice where proceeds would be donates to informal orphanages, Lydia’s House and Anthea Pieters Home.
Love the Land: Clearing alien plants
The second group to love the land also worked on the Working for Water project, and assisted in clearing alien plants and planting indigenous trees.
In 2005 the Millenium Eco System Assessment carried out a worldwide evaluation of the state of the natural environment, and a key finding was that 60% of the ecosystem services examined – including fisheries and fresh water – are being degraded or used in ways that cannot be sustained.
In short, we are living beyond our means.
Love the Land: Work for Water
At Spier we have a variety of sustainability initiatives in place, with water conservation and recycling as the key focus. The first team that participated in the Agents of Change project assisted in clearing alien plants that threaten our rich biodiversity use water resources and invade land that could be better used for crops or grazing.
Love the Land Team challenge
Recently the Spier Living and Learning Programme donated a Spekboom (or Elephants Food plant) to every department within Spier to inform them of Love the Land, the new programmes start. This super plant uses very little water to capture a large amount of carbon form the air, and teams were challenged to collectively decide where to plant this tree.
The Winemaking Team
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