From Good Friday to Easter Monday, Backsberg Estate Cellars has lined up a colorful assortment of events that will fulfil all your wine and hot cross bun dreams. From Friday 30 March to Monday 2 April, decadent Easter-themed picnics and pairings will be available all weekend on the farm. Picnic...
Dear Backsbergers, It’s the most wonderful - and challenging - time of the year for a wine producer. While harvest began unusually early the past two years, this year’s vintage is right on schedule. On the 15th of January our team rose early to gather the first Chardonnay grapes, destined for...
It's competition time! The amazing Sam Linsell of Drizzle & Dip has specially created the below easy-to-make but delicious creamy chicken recipe to pair with our Backsberg Chenin Blanc! Recreate this recipe at home, post a pic of your handiwork using the hashtag #BacksbergCheninandChef and stand a chance to WIN...
We are thrilled to announce that the world’s leading tour bus operator, City Sightseeing, will be stopping at Backsberg from 22 January 2018, as part of their Wine Country Day Tour. We look forward to hosting the tourists of the red bus on our farm and better acquainting them with...
The maiden vintage of Backsberg’s Pinotage Rosé, recently earning a Double Gold medal at the 2017 Rosé Rocks Competition, is the ideal wine to enjoy with summer fare. To add even more excitement to the introduction of this wine to Backsberg’s portfolio, several esteemed food and wine bloggers accepted the...
On Saturday, 14 October 2017, the World of Wine will pay tribute to South Africa’s most iconic indigenous grape variety. A local at heart, the Pinotage grape was created in 1925 when Professor Abraham Izak Perold crossed the well-known varieties of Pinot Noir and Cinsaut. The iconic Pinotage was born. Since...
The 2017 Standard Bank Joy of Jazz marks the 20th anniversary of one of South Africa’s oldest and most reputable jazz events. Jazz lovers from across the country are expected to flock en masse to Johannesburg this September for three days of unrivalled musical talent. As in previous years, Backsberg...
Known as one of the largest arts festivals within the South African space, the Aardklop National Arts Festival held annually in Potchefstroom celebrates the cultural heritage and spirit of primarily Afrikaans theatre, dance, music, cabaret and the visual arts. The 2017 festival will run from the 2nd until the 8th...
Backsberg Estate Cellars’ maiden-release Pinotage Rosé won a Double Gold medal at the 2017 Rosé Rocks Competition. This is South Africa’s only wine competition exclusively committed to rosé wines. Some 161 still and sparkling wines were entered into this year’s competition, with only nine Double Golds awarded to still wines...
The ninth Backsberg Vino Varsity inter-university wine challenge saw Stellenbosch take the laurels due to their near-perfect execution of the basics. Superior wine knowledge and breath-taking tasting skills had the Stellenbosch Wine Culture Society beat the UCT Wine Society into second place, while University of Pretoria struggled to keep up...
In celebration of Women’s Day on Wednesday, 9 August 2017, all female patrons will be offered a complimentary wine tasting from our fabulous Tasting Room. Ladies may choose between five unique wines from our extensive selection. That's not all. There will also be some incredible promotional offers available to patrons visiting...
Author: Jen Miller Source: Jen Reviews Wine In times of celebration, a wine toast may be just one of the most awaited part by many. Popping open the cork while the velvety oaked aroma fills the air and flowing effervescent liquid comes out from the bottle gives excitement to everyone. Bubbly is usually...
The release of Backsberg Estate Cellars’ Chenin Blanc 2017 underscores the excellence of this year’s South African vintage, as well as the exceptional quality of Chenin Blanc grapes grown in various regions of the Cape Winelands. According to Backsberg CEO Simon Back, Chenin Blanc remains one of Backsberg’s most popular...
The growing demand for dry rosé from its established customer base has led to the launch of Backsberg Estate Cellars’ maiden Pinotage Rosé. Made from the superb 2017 vintage, the Backsberg Pinotage Rosé 2017 is produced from grapes grown on the Backsberg Estate on the Paarl side of the Simonsberg,...
Backsberg produces a Premium Range, a Black Label Range, an eco-friendly range, Tread Lightly by Backsberg, and a range of fortified wines but what few people know is that we are also a producer of some noteworthy kosher wines. According to Rabbi Tzvi Rosen, editor of the quarterly journal Kashrus Kurrents,...
Attending this year’s Backsberg Postgraduate Vino Varsity Challenge between the MBA students from UCT and Stellenbosch could have one thinking of the 1980s pop music band China Crisis. Both teams were tasked with solving the South African wine industry’s challenge of getting shelf-space, throat-approval and face-time in premium wine markets....
Showing my age I’ll admit that when first meeting the John Martin Sauvignon Blanc from Backsberg Estate Cellars I assumed the wine was named after the iconic South African yachtsman. This John Martin was to round-the-world sailing what Cristiano Ronaldo is to football, and if ever a sailor needed a...
We are pleased to announce that the 2014 vintage of our celebrated Pumphouse Shiraz has just been released. As part of Backsberg's Black Label Range, only grapes from our top performing vineyards are used to produce this stunning red. The wines within this range are named after a particular place...
Short, sharp and very good. This was harvest 2017 at Backsberg Estate Cellars where scarcely two months after the first grapes were picked this frenetically busy season for the winery came to an end in the first few days of March. For Alicia Rechner, Backsberg’s wine maker, the evidence of...
For the very first time Backsberg will be heading to the world’s largest and most influential international wine and spirits trade fair, ProWein. Every year the global wine world gets together for three days in Dusseldorf, Germany, to sell and promote their wares. This year the fair will be held between...