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Cabernet Sauvignon
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Medium depth ruby with a bright slightly lighter strawberry rim. Enticing ripe berry intensity layered with earthy mineral tones and attractive coriander, rosemary and thyme herbaceous complexity. Smooth, medium-bodied entry with intense juicy red and black berry fruit flavours that are in perfect harmony with the well defined yet restrained ripe tannins and well integrated wood. >>A medium-bodied approachable Cabernet Sauvignon with soft smooth tannins allowing early accessibility yet potential to develop further complexity within 2 to 5 years.
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Chardonnay
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Pale glistening gold with a brilliant green glow. Appealing vanilla butter aromas with layers of peaches, sweet melon and marmalade offset by delicate floral fragrances. Crisp yet creamy dry entry exploding into lemon butter and tropical fruit flavours with well integrated vanilla oak notes offering pleasing richness yet maintaining a zesty freshness. >>A dry, medium bodied Chardonnay with graceful integration of ripe fruit and discreet oak treatment
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Chenin Blanc
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Pale straw with youthful green hues. Generous exotic tropical fruit aromas with subtle guava and pink grapefruit nuances. A dry fruity entry with well balanced crisp acidity and deliciously juicy tropical and citrus aftertaste. >>An easy drinking dry, light – bodied, fruity wine that is crisp and enticing. The broad appeal makes this great for wine by the glass.
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Pinotage
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Attractive deep crimson colour with blue tinges and a purple hue proceed ravishing ripe strawberry and raspberry fruit aromas with attractive vanilla spice complexity. Soft smooth medium-bodied entry and juicy red berry flavours. Ripe silky tannins and discreet spicy oak vanillins balance the fruit that fades into a soft berry aftertaste. >>A medium bodied, lush, fruit driven wine with a soft juicy structure that is playful on the palate and extremely approachable for youthful undemanding drinking
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Sauvignon Blanc
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Pale straw with a youthful green glimmer, enticing pineapple and granadilla layered with chalky mineral green pepper aromas. Dry bracing crispness on entry followed by fresh tropical fruit intensity that is well integrated with a zesty acidity and a citrus fruit aftertaste.A light bodied dry white wine with bracing fruit flavours that refresh the palate and end with a delicate aftertaste.

 

DOUGLAS GREEN WINES

Douglas Green knew his wine. Besides having been to South Africa’s famous wine school, Elsenburg and being a qualified as a winemaker and viticulturist, his fine palate and talent for tasting was well known.

He began his business with the purchase of the Forrer brother’s Stukvat liquor business in Paarl’s main road in 1938, and he is recognised as South Africa’s first true ‘negotiant’ wine merchant. It was risky and unconventional in his day, but he successfully ignored regionalism in favour of quality and price sourcing grapes and wine from across the Cape to blend his top quality range of wines.

By 1942, his label was famed for its superiority and consistency year after year. His progressive approach established Douglas Green wines at the forefront of fantastic, affordable lifestyle wines in South Africa.

Today, Douglas Green wines capture the character and the vibrancy of the Cape. For almost 70 years people from around the world have come to appreciate that beneath every cork lies a true taste of Africa in all its diversity.

Our Viticultural Philosophy

We source only the best vineyards and growers, from the best suited regions for each variety to create our distinctive fruit-driven signature wines.

By selecting and sourcing grapes from the varied terrains of the Cape winelands, we stay true to our unmistakably new world fruity style whilst achieving consistent standards, vintage after vintage. Our dedication to the selection of grapes according to varietal expression and excellence, guarantees that every bottle is a testament to Cape wine at its best.

Our Vineyards and Growers

Stephan Joubert is our expert viticulturist who leads us through the great diversity of Cape mountains and valleys to seek out the finest vineyards and viticultural circumstances, pinpointed for definitive styles. Our great relationships with our growers developed over several harvests have ensured ultimate understanding of the specific yields, harvesting and vineyard nurturing that is true to the Douglas Green style of wines.

At the beginning of each season, Stephan visits each vineyard to establish the management techniques required to produce fruit that is best suited to Douglas Green’s fresh, easy-drinking style. This might require, for example, opening up leafy canopies to ensure that the grapes get more sun and ripen accordingly. It might mean thinning the crop where bunches are too large to improve fruit concentration.

Prior to harvest and at every stage of development, the Douglas Green team is on hand to taste and analyse the fruit, ensuring that the grapes evolve according to the Douglas Green plan. Flavour, bouquet, texture and suppleness are assessed by touch, taste, smell and a wealth of experience. There is no room for mistakes, no place for mediocrity and no window of opportunity to be missed.

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