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A TRIUMPHANT YEAR FOR BON COURAGE ESTATE
Affirming the Estate’s ability to consistently make award-winning wines
to suit every palate and pocket
Bon Courage, the third-generation Bruwer family estate in the Robertson Wine Valley, has had a winning year, scooping a tally of 22 high-ranking awards, at an array of national wine competitions, across its wine- ranges, styles and price-points.
Winning two Veritas Double Golds, five Veritas Golds, three Michelangelo Golds, three Winemakers’ Choice Diamond Awards, a SA Terroir Wine Awards National Champion, a Top 100 SA Wines award, a Muscadel Association Awards Gold medal as well as six Best Value Awards 2012, is no mean feat. Significantly, these accolades have been awarded to a large selection of Bon Courage wines including: Cap Classiques; dry, semi-dry and special late harvest white wines; red wines and muscadels; made from various cultivars and retailing at prices varying between R28 and R120.
Winemaker, Jacques Bruwer, is delighted with the Estate’s successes this year, which he considers, “...a noteworthy recognition of Bon Courage’s ability to produce a diversity of wines which offer consistency in quality and value for money, and an affirmation for the Robertson Wine Valley as a whole”.
Awards, winning wines and approximate retail prices
2011 Veritas Double Gold
• Jacques Bruére Blanc de Blancs 2006
• Red Muscadel 2011
2011 Veritas Gold
• Jacques Bruére Blanc de Blancs 2007
• Andre’s Fame Colombard 2011
• Hillside White 2011 (Colombard/Chardonnay)
• Inkara Shiraz 2009
• White Muscadel 2011
Michelangelo Gold
• Jacques Bruére Brut Reserve 2007
• Chardonnay Prestige Cuvée 2010
• Inkara Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
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Winemakers’ Choice Diamond Awards
• Jacques Bruére Blanc de Blancs 2006
• Inkara Shiraz 2009
• White Muscadel 2011
SA Terroir Wine Awards
• National Champion: Inkara Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Top 100 SA Wines
• Jacques Bruére Blanc de Blancs 2007
Muscadel Association Awards
• Gold: White Muscadel 2011
Best Value Awards 2012
• Sauvignon Blanc 2011
• Like Father Like Son Chenin Blanc 2011
• Gewürztraminer Special Late Harvest 2011
• Shiraz 2010
• White Muscadel 2011
• Red Muscadel 2011
Rated 4 stars: ‘Excellent. Wine of Distinction.
Bon Courage is very much about family. Father, André, is the viticulturist, son Jacques focuses on vinification, younger son Pieter has an accounting degree, and looks after the financial side of the farm and daughter Maude runs Café Maude, the very popular lunch restaurant and coffee shop, named after Ouma Maude who was a great cook. André’s wife, Irmela, has embraced a philanthropic role, developing the farm’s skills development centre and crèche as well as other social activities and clubs for the farm community. Jacques, Pieter and Maude all live on the farm with their children – the fourth generation of Bruwers.
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