We only use French Oak for ageing our red wines. However, we use barrels from a number of different coopers, because each cooper’s barrels has a different influence on a wine. Occasionally one can even get disharmony (for example, the wood tannins in Taransaud barrels react very badly with the fruit tannins in pinotage).

So, in addition to being able to taste our bottled wines, visitors to Cloof will now also be able to do a barrel tasting – the same wine aged in barrels from four different coopers. While there is no charge for tasting our bottled wines, the cost of the barrel tasting is R30 per person.