Golden Kaan Wins Gold Medal

October 2008

The Golden Kaan wine brand has won gold at Veritas, one of South Africa’s premier wine awards. The 2007 Golden Kaan Private Collection Chardonnay was awarded a gold medal while the 2005 Golden Kaan Private Collection Cabernet Sauvignon, as well as the 2008 Golden Kaan Classic Chenin Blanc, were awarded bronze medals.

The Veritas gold medal is a deserved accolade for this wine. The rich, creamy texture of the Private Collection Chardonnay has already won many international medals and accolades for its outstanding quality.

This Chardonnay embodies ripe fruit and oak flavours which are well integrated with complex citrus, pear, peach and woody flavours that add depth and dimension. It is an elegant wine that holds its fruitiness through to the finish, ending on a clean, crisp note.  The grapes were harvested at 24°B, the bunches were pressed in a bag press and the juice was fermented and aged in new French oak barrels for nine months.

The bronze winning Golden Kaan Private Collection Cabernet Sauvignon is dark, ripe and intense with a firm tannic backbone and plenty of black-berry, plum and spicy currant flavours, picking up cedary spice, oak and tobacco notes. It is a complex and concentrated wine for the sophisticated wine lover.  The Classic Chenin Blanc is already proving to be a favourite house wine with tropical fruit on the nose and a lingering after taste.

The Veritas Awards is the longest running and most prestigious wine competition in South Africa and is synonymous with “excellence in wine”. It represents the full spectrum of the South African wine industry and gives recognition to wines of exceptional quality.