De Wetshof Wines

09/08/2025

⚜️Handmade with Love by the Ladies of De Wetshof

We’re thrilled to share something truly special from our tasting room – delicious, homemade preserves crafted by the incredible ladies of De Wetshof Estate!

These preserves are more than just tasty – they represent a growing initiative to uplift and empower the women on our farm. Every jar you purchase is 100% for them – all proceeds go directly to the talented women who made them.

Our goal? To inspire these ladies to create their own unique products using ingredients from the farm. With support from De Wetshof, we’ll help sell these goods right here in our tasting room – creating sustainable income and celebrating local talent.

Next time you visit, take a jar (or two!) home – you’ll be supporting something truly meaningful.

⚜️Lien Prins, Johanna Bonani & Rosa Franse.

06/08/2025

⚜️De Wetshof headed for the Lowveld, joining a number of South Africa’s best wineries in showing their wares at Mpumalanga Winex.What joy it was, introducing hordes of that region’s wine-lovers to our range of Chardonnays and other wines. The region’s majestic bushveld setting made this an evocative experience for us, as well as other visitors. And showed that good wine adds to the majestic natural environment of the bushveld.

06/08/2025

04/08/2025

⚜️Private Library Tasting

The De Wetshof Wine Library is home to some of our rare bottled treasures of older and other sought-after wines. This collection has been curated by members of the De Wet family and represents matured fine vintages of some of the best wines De Wetshof has made in its illustrious history.

We are proud to offer wine-lovers the experience of tasting these exclusive wine in the intimate atmosphere of our Wine Library.

Book a private library tasting via [email protected]

31/07/2025

⚜️De Wetshof recently hosted some 25 representatives at Marble Restaurant in the Cape Town Waterfront.The event included the launch of our Limestone Hill Chardonnay from vintage 2025, as well as the first showing of our The Shard Chardonnay. This wine is the first South African Chardonnay matured in the 220l Wineglobe glass vessel.

22/07/2025

⚜️Icy mornings.

The sound of secateurs snapping among the vines. It is pruning time on De Wetshof Estate. Pruning vineyards removes excess shoots and buds to limit grape production, focusing energy on fewer, higher-quality grapes with better flavour, sugar, and acidity.

The process maintains vine health by eliminating dead, diseased, or overcrowded wood, improving air circulation and light exposure and reducing fungal diseases. Also, it guides growth for optimal canopy management, ensuring efficient photosynthesis and easier harvesting.

Balanced growth is encouraged through pruning, preventing overexertion and extending the vine’s productive life. An essential part of each season, and one helping the vineyard to produce grapes for wines worthy of the De Wetshof label.

16/07/2025

⚜️ Happy birthday to Johann De Wet, 3rd generation wine-farmer on De Wetshof.

Yes, there is the role of soil, aspect and climate in making fine wine, but the role of 3 generations of human terroir cannot be discounted.

Knowledge, skill and understanding of vineyards and wine are passed from one generation to another, cementing the special bond between vine, wine and family.

09/07/2025

⚜️ Hand-painted Magnum bottles of The Site and Bateleur by artists, Janita Doms, Lonette De Vries & Lucile van Deventer in celebration of International Chardonnay Day, the 22nd of May ‘25.

Below is a breakdown of the brief:

ARTIST: Janita Doms, Robertson

Bateleur and the Vineyard

Here white grapes are depicted symbolising De Wetshof Estate, The House of Chardonnay. The estate has thrown its weight behind conservation efforts aimed at preventing the declining population of the Bateleur eagle, the majestic raptor that inspired De Wetshof’s iconic Bateleur Chardonnay.

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ARTIST: Lucile van Deventer, Robertson

The Valley of Wine and Roses

De Wetshof is synonymous with white Iceberg roses. The pear tree blossoms represent one of the oldest trees we have on the farm being over 150 years old and serves as a remembrance to the founders of De Wetshof, Johann Sr. and Dolla de Wet

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ARTIST: Lonette de Vries, Robertson

Terroir and Fynbos

The artwork on the wine bottle draws inspiration from the rich, earthy tones of terracotta clay soil and the vibrant, untamed beauty of the surrounding Robertson Granite Fynbos that reflects De Wetshof’s deep connection to its terroir.

Captured by Elana van Zyl

30/06/2025

⚜️ With the Winter holidays in full-swing, travellers are winding their way through the glorious Cape winelands. Those who find themselves in the Robertson region, be sure to pop-in at De Wetshof - not only for the range of stunning wines, but to browse the new lifestyle shop to be found in our tasting-room. Here you will find a curated array of crafts, linen and edibles, ranging from ceramics, linen tableware, woven baskets, illustrated stationary and home-made preserves. Do stop in for a whole new wineland shopping experience guaranteed to make your journey so much more memorable and rewarding.

27/06/2025

⚜️ It might be the middle of the South African winter, but no day is too cold for a glass of floral rosé.

De Wetshof Lilya Rosé glows like a summer sunset, on the palate it is awash with sumptuous fruit flavours, bringing colour and delight...Happy Rosé Day!

20/06/2025

⚜️ Beautiful details of our newly updated Tasting Room. Designed by Captured by

15/06/2025

⚜️ Wine is eternal, and its continual flow from generation to generation is inspired by the fathers of yesterday, of today and tomorrow.

On Father’s Day we celebrate the father who entrusted the current generation with everything De Wetshof has become, as well as the fathers of those to whom the future is entrusted. Happy Father’s Day to all Dads.