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A rather rare, very unusual wine… Diemersdal Grüner Veltliner

IN AUSTRIA, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, it is one of the most widely planted grape varieties. It’s also to be found in the winelands of Hungary and New Zealand, as well as on the winelists of certain top restaurants in the UK and USA. In South Africa, however, Grüner Veltliner was pretty much unheard of until Diemersdal of Durbanville

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Durbanville’s champion wine producer a Sauvignon Blanc specialist with good reds, a South African first, plus…

RELATIVE to many other top South African wine estates, Diemersdal is humble in appearance – nothing very fancy, a rustic farm that in some ways has been slow to change with the times, and all the more charming for it. Within the ward of Durbanville, the farm stands apart to the north of the town – quite separate from most of

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