Students of Elsenburg Agricultural College, raising awareness and funds so that South Africans can still enjoy world renowned wines for generations to come.
The first wine under the Elsenburg label was made in collaboration with Groot Constantia in 1904, making Elsenburg the first and oldest institution for training individuals in the field of wine making. Elsenburg Agricultural College is situated near Stellenbosch. In 1894 the first graduates graduated in the discipline of Viticulture and Oenology. Currently 80% of South African winemakers have rece
11/05/2016
Big thanks to the CWG for the generous donation and the ongoing support for our wine auctions.
Die 2016 studente van elsenburg is baie opgewonde vir ons toer Frankryk toe en will net weer dankie se vir almal wat ons help en sien uit om deel te wees van die industrie.
13/08/2012
This is us, winning awards with our wines! Whoop Whoop!!!
http://www.elsenburg.co.za/blog/elsenburgcellarstudentsexcelatjongwynskou12
Elsenburg Cellar Students excel at Jongwynskou '12 - Elsenburg Cellar Students
13/08/2012
Carrie Adams of the Classic Wine show (Friday evenings @ 18H30, on ClassicFM) seems to enjoy talking about us and our auction. ;P Thanks Carrie!!! To download the podcasts to have a listen, use this link ---> http://www.elsenburg.co.za/newsroom
06/08/2012
03/08/2012
Herewith our invitation to all, to join us for our auction event! To download a more legible copy of your invite, hit this link ----> http://goo.gl/Pi02o
03/08/2012
Adriaan, one of our cellar students, spent some time with Neil Pendock, pondering the future of young winemakers. Look at what Neil had to say about their lunch at Societi Bistro... http://goo.gl/Ns5k1
A Cosatu for Winemakers | Pendock Uncorked As SA wine becomes increasingly and perhaps unavoidably politicized, its worth considering pressures on that silent constituency: the winemakers. At a
03/08/2012
Lookie here! Neil Pendock reckoned he would dip his quill in the ink pot to write a bit about our efforts to raise funds for our international wine tour.
Have a read at http://goo.gl/UZr3d
Time to invest in the future, not fat cats | Pendock Uncorked Relying on e- rather than voicemail has one disadvantage when traveling overseas: huge backlogs of messages, many deleted by your service provider – in my
03/08/2012
The Elsenburg Grapevine:
Most of us, especially as students, were raised to believe that OBS is the be all and end all of sherry. Turns out there is so much more to this gem from a previous era! Please comment on our article!
http://goo.gl/ocghB
Has the sherry fashion passed for good? - Elsenburg Cellar Students Sherry is a wine that needs to be appreciated, which is probably why people don’t tend to like sherry as much as easy drinking wine, as this requires them to take their time when consuming the sherry. They need to know what exactly sherry is and need to familiarise themselves with each of the diffe...
03/08/2012
We're launching the Elsenburg Grapevine! Our own blog, on our own new website! Our first articles are up for your commentary!
First article, Disillusionment in Education, is about learning what is truly meant by the word, "work".
http://goo.gl/YzeIH
Disillusionment in Education - Elsenburg Cellar Students The year in the cellar so far has been an intense experience to say the least, especially during the harvest months. I did not realise it was even possible to function with so little sleep over such a long period, not to mention the tremendous stress levels added by the academic syllabus and more i...
18/07/2012
The Elsenburg final year students in action