Auctioneer Giles Peppiatt

A RECORD number of 163 bidders registered for the 2020 Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction hosted by Bonhams of London, with 82 from South Africa and 81 from across the globe. 65% of sales went to South African buyers, the balance going to collectors and merchants in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Hong Kong, the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore and Belgium. See below for the auction wines that fetched prices ranging up to and over R2000 a bottle, and for the full results click here.

TOP PRICES FETCHED

Kanonkop CWG Paul Sauer 2017
Bordeaux-style Red Blend, WO Stellenbosch
R16 000 paid for 6 bottles: R2666pb
Average price per case: R13 667
Winemaker: Abrie Beeslaar
Proprietors: Johann & Paul Krige

Cederberg Teen die Hoog Shiraz 2018
WO Cederberg
R52 000 paid for 24 bottles: R2166pb
Average price per case: R12 190
Winemaker-Proprietor: David Nieuwoudt

Boschkloof Epilogue Syrah 2018
WO Stellenbosch
R12 000 paid for 6 bottles: R2000pb
Average price per case: R8810
Winemaker-Proprietor: Jacques Borman

Rust en Vrede CWG Auction Estate 2017
Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Blend, WO Stellenbosch
R48 000 paid for 24 bottles: R2000pb
Average price per case: R10 952
Winemaker: Coenie Snyman
Proprietor: Jean Engelbrecht

Leeu Passant Radicales Libres 2015
Chardonnay, WO Klein Karoo
R12 000 paid for 6 bottles: R2000pb
Average price per case: R9905
Winemaker/Co-owner: Andrea Mullineux

TOP WINEMAKERS

The Cape Winemakers Guild (CWG) was established in 1982. Membership is by invitation only, extended to winemakers whose achievements are recognised by their peers. By 2020 the number of producing members stood at 44, with their names and those of the cellars they are based at comprising the people and places behind many of South Africa’s finest wines:

Arnold, Kevin – Waterford
Badenhorst, Adi
Beaumont, Sebastian
Beeslaar, Abrie – Kanonkop
Borman, Jacques – Boschkloof
Burger, Andries – Paul Cluver
Eksteen, Bartho
Ellis, Warren – Neil Ellis
Ferreira, Pieter – Graham Beck
Finlayson, David – Edgebaston
Finlayson, Peter – Bouchard Finlayson
Finlayson, Peter-Allan – Crystallum
Gerber, Boela – Groot Constantia
Grant, Kevin – Ataraxia
Grier, Jeff – Villiera
Heyns, Dewaldt – Saronsberg
Hopkins, Charles – De Grendel
Jordan, Gary
Kent, Marc – Boekenhoutskloof
Le Riche, Etienne
Loubser, John – Silverthorn
Malan, Johan – Simonsig
Mocke, Gottfried
Mossop, Miles
Mullineux, Andrea – Mullineux & Leeu
Nel, Carl – Boplaas
Newton Johnson, Gordon
Nieuwoudt, David – Cederberg
O’Keefe, Samantha – Lismore
Pretorius, JD – Warwick
Raats, Bruwer
Rall, Donovan
Savage, Duncan
Schultz, Carl – Hartenberg
Smit, Frans – Spier
Snyman, Coenie – Rust en Vrede
Strydom, Louis – Ernie Els
Strydom, Rianie
Trafford, David – De Trafford
Truter, Beyers – Beyerskloof
Verburg, Niels – Luddite
Vrey, Morné – Delaire Graff
Wahl, Pierre – Rijk’s
Walker, Jeremy – Grangehurst