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View of the Kasteelberg, at the foot of which the winery and the cultivation areas are located

Allesverloren (alternatively called Allesverloren Estate or Allesverloren Wine Estate ) is a South African winery . It is located at the foot of the Kasteelberg between the villages of Riebeek West and Riebeek Kasteel in the Swartland municipality .

Allesverloren is one of the oldest wineries in the Swartland region and was one of the first to offer a Shiraz in South Africa.

history

The area of ​​today's winery was sold at the beginning of the 18th century by Willem Adriaan van der Stel , the then governor of the Cape Colony , to a widow from the Cloete family, who built a farm in the country. In order to sell their goods and to run errands, long trips to the surrounding villages were sometimes necessary. While the owner was on such a drive in 1704, the farm was raided and burned down. The settlers decided to rebuild the property; to commemorate what happened, it was called “All Lost”. In the decades that followed, farmers began to grow wine. The first Allesverloren wine was produced in 1806, but the main use of the farm initially remained wheat cultivation.

In 1872 the farm Allesverloren was sold to the Malan family. Daniel François Malan, the father of the later (named after him) South African Prime Minister Daniel François Malan , began more and more to reduce the cultivation of grain and to grow wine on the farm. His grandson, Daniel François de Merindol Malan, finally converted Allesverloren into a pure winery. In collaboration with a professor from the Faculty of Agriculture at Stellenbosch University , CJ Theron, Portuguese grape varieties were first grown in 1939 and the production of dessert wines began. In the 1950s Allesverloren was known nationwide for its port wines. When the demand for such sweet wines declined in the 1960s, Stephanus "Fanie" François Malan, the son of Daniel François de Merindol and owner of the winery since 1961, concentrated on the production of traditionally pressed, dry red wines.

The cultivation area has been expanded to over 200 hectares over the decades . Everything lost is owned by the Malan family to this day. Daniel “Danie” François Malan, who has been a winemaker since 1990, has been running the winery in the fifth generation since 2003.

range

The Allesverloren winery only produced red wines until 2017. The range is mainly determined by the Shiraz , Tinta Barroca , Tinta Roriz , Cabernet Sauvignon and Touriga Nacional grape varieties . Until 2012, a port was offered in South Africa under the name Allesverloren Port . However, since the designations “port” and “port” were protected by international regulations as designations of origin and origin, this wine has been produced under the label Allesverloren Fine Old Vintage .

In 2017, the Allesverloren Chenin Blanc was added to the range for the first time since the winery was founded.

Awards (selection)

  • 1989: Award for the Allesverloren Shiraz at Vinexpo in Bordeaux
  • 1998: Danie Malan was named South African Winemaker of the Year
  • 2000: Peter Schultz Award for Excellence in Port Production for the Allesverloren Port at the Calitzdorp Port Festival
  • 2003: The Allesverloren Shiraz received two gold awards at the Veritas Awards in South Africa
  • 2010: "Gyllene Glaset" ( German  golden glass ; Swedish award for wine producers) for Danie Malan

Others

At the Allesverloren winery, a market is held every month under the name The Village Market , at which local farmers, traders, craftsmen and artists offer their goods and products and which is intended to appeal not only to residents but also to tourists in the region.

Wines from the Allesverloren estate and the history of the origin of the name appear in the novels Hummeldumm (2010) and Überman (2012) by the German author Tommy Jaud . As a result, individual book signing sessions were held in Germany, which Jaud organized together with the winery.

literature

  • Heinz-Gert Woschek: The great wines from the Cape. Vine and Wine in South Africa. Woschek Verlag 1984, ISBN 3-924-74401-7 , pp. 182 ff., 224.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annekathrin Koophamel: Corked history. Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 11, 2017, accessed on April 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Wine Country South Africa: Terroirists from the Swartland. Falstaff Magazin 02/2012, April 15, 2012, accessed on April 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b The Allesverloren Legacy. Everything lost, accessed on April 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Woschek: The great wines from the Cape. P. 183.
  5. ↑ Allesverloren Port justly famous. wine.co.za, October 7, 2010, accessed April 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Allesverloren-Weine in the Falstaff database. fallstaff, accessed April 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Goodbye Allesverloren “Port”, hello “Fine Old Vintage”. Platter's, February 13, 2012, accessed April 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Michael Olivier: Allesverloren Chenin Blanc 2017 - a first white from the predominantly red wine producing Swartland Estate. peoples, places, wine & food, October 15, 2017, accessed on April 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b Allesverloren Wine Estate. kapstadt.de, accessed on April 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ a b Allesverloren Estate. Stellenbosch.net, accessed April 23, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Malin Turunen: Roy Fares vann Allt om Mat: s stora matpris - Här är alla vinnare! Allt om Mat, November 10, 2017, accessed April 25, 2018 (Swedish).
  12. ^ Local Products & Markets - Outdoor Market. Riebeek Valley Tourism, accessed April 24, 2018 .
  13. ↑ signing with Hummeldumm best-selling author Tommy Jaud. Cultural Department of the City of Munich, 2010, accessed on April 23, 2018 .

Coordinates: 33 ° 21 ′ 33.1 ″  S , 18 ° 52 ′ 23.3 ″  E