Donovan Mr wineproducer

English:
I met Donovan at a WOSA winetasting in Copenhagen a wile ago to taste his wines.

This is a young winemaker who is based in Stellenbosch and graduated from the university in 2005 where he after that went to Europe and did some vintages in Rhone, Burgundy, Mosel and with Cloudy bay in New Zealand. In South Africa he started to work with Tokara and did a vintage together with the famous Eben Sadie in Swartland where he was inspired do start to make his own wines in a rented cellar space in Stellenbosch.

His winemaking philosophy is very simple, source the best fruit from the oldest vineyards possible for the blend of chenin blanc ,chardonnay, verdelho and viognier and not try to interfere with the natural process to much.

Both of his wines where brilliant and full of flavours and I’m looking forward to this young mans wines to come.

Best of luck Mr Rall.

 Svenska:

Donovan Rall är en cool kille och vinmakare av sitt eget vin, jag träffade honom en dag I Köpenhamn där WOSA (wines of south Africa) hade ordnat en workshop för att visa upp vad landet kan prestera av viner och att lära ut hur landet ser på framtiden, supertrevligt och nyttigt då jag har haft svårt att greppa denna del av världen tidigare.

Vi provade viner hela dagen och en massa vinproducenter var närvarande och berättade deras historia och om framtiden, men den som faktiskt fastnade mest var Donovan med sin lite kaxiga attityd och en jävlar anamma av sällan skådat slag stod ut över dom andra

Hans viner två olika vita blandningar var mycket bra och super ambitiösa försök att göra det bästa vin man kan, på köpt frukt av mycket gamla stockar, jag ser fram mot att någon importör tar in hans viner till Sverige snart.

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