My visit to the Springfield Estate, Robertson, South Africa

Springfield Estate

Springfield Estate

This was one of those visits, the winemaker spoke sense, he was modest, the place was lovely and the wines thrilled me. Our host, owner and winemaker Abri Brewer amused me from the beginning and I loved his attitude. “Customers are funny things”, he said, well, amen to that. “We make wine to drink, any left over we can sell to people”, he said later, so he does not find out what the market wants first then – music to my ears.
He also told us that he was not making commercial “flappy, floppy wines” and we have all had some of those, haven’t we? Continue reading