Vintage Reports
2021
Vintage 2021 is officially in the books. With the reds slowly starting their natural malolactic fermentation, we thought of giving our loyal customers some input on this our 25th vintage at Laibach. For a start this was our latest vintage since our first vintage 1997....
2020
So far, like you all know, the year 2020 will be remembered for a very long time. Covid – 19 in many ways reflected all of us. We however prefer not to talk about this that much but rather focus on something more positive – Harvest 2020. After a very challenging 2019...
2019
As the first 2019 wine is being bottled, I think it is a good time to look back at vintage 2019. Like you all know the Western Cape area had a severe drought the last three years with low winter rainfall in the wine growing areas. So much so that the 2018 vintage was...
2018
The end of another vintage at Laibach. This vintage will just be remembered by one word: drought! The winelands and the Western Cape are in the middle of a three year drought with rainfall not nearly reaching the long term average. Dam levels are very low and water...
2017
After a very dry and difficult 2016 vintage we again experienced a very dry winter. The rainfall for June, July and August 2016 was much lower than the long term average for these usually wet months. Budding was surprisingly even if you consider the stress the plants...
2016
Dear fellow Laibach enthusiast, with the last few tanks slowly finishing their natural malolactic fermentation it is time to look back on vintage 2016. Just when we were shocked with the early start to the 2015 vintage Nature just decided to through us another curve...