Give the gift of luxury & the joy of travel
Our carefully curated Gift Experience Vouchers make the perfect present. Lucky recipients can celebrate and indulge themselves in luxurious surroundings, creating special and unique moments to last a lifetime.
Gift vouchers can be purchased online and sent by post in a beautifully presented wallet, sent by email if it's a last-minute purchase, and are also available for purchase at Hotel d'Angleterre.
Handpicked harvest
At Bouchard Finlayson we believe that great wine begins in the vineyard. And after a year of careful cultivation, the vineyard and cellar team take enormous care when bringing in the harvest. All harvesting on the estate is done by hand by our highly skilled vineyard workers, who select only those grape bunches that have achieved optimum phenolic ripeness. With vineyard rows ripening at different times, this requires multiple harvests in each vineyard to pick each bunch at the perfect moment. It is labour intensive and time consuming, but we believe the end result is well worth the extra effort.
Inspired by Burgundy
Since the first vines were planted in 1989, the estate has followed the Burgundian tradition of high-density viticulture. Across most of the estate each hectare is planted with 8000 individual vines, planted in five-row blocks spaced just one metre from the adjacent row. This high-density approach stimulates healthy competition between the vines, improving colour, concentration and tannins in the grapes. In the warm climate of South Africa, greater leaf cover means that less of the vineyard soil is exposed to direct sunlight, creating a cooler microclimate within each vineyard.
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