Fairview Online Shop

Naturally, first stop is our home base of Fairview.co.za. Fairview is the only website that sells all of the Fairview Wines (all 60+ of them, yes!) from classics like Fairview Shiraz to our flagship Fairview Cyril Back. We also have a few limited wines, such as Broken Barrel (exclusive to the Tasting Room and online shop), as well as our Bloemcool range – a small batch selection that allows our winemakers to experiment with unusual varieties and blends. Of course, the site wouldn’t be complete without our old faithful’s like our lifestyle offering of La Capra wines, and our beloved blended Goats Do Roam range. (Hint: Sign up to our newsletter to hear our regular and unbeatable specials – many of which included once-off batches that are high value for money!)

Visit https://www.fairview.co.za/shop/

Winefolk

We like the folk and Winefolk, and are happy to say that almost the entire Fairview Wine range is available on their site – making it one of best selections outside our online shop and tasting room. Winefolk was established by a few passionate wine personalities to supply wines directly to consumers, door to door in South Africa. If you love a bargain, this is your bag! Winefolk specializes in deals (especially in export overruns and such), with regular wine specials ranging between R25 – R45. Sign up to their newsletter – their wine sells fast!

Visit https://winefolk.co.za/

Yuppiechef

As one of South Africa’s premier online kitchen & homeware store, Yuppiechef has a formidable wine selection, and we’re proud to be part of their cellar selection. The site is user friendly and it’s all too easy to spend way too much time on it (trust us!) – after all, if you’re going to buy some fine Fairview wine, why not upgrade your glassware while you’re at it? Yuppiechef offers our wine in 6 bottle cases, securing really get value for money.

Visit https://www.yuppiechef.com/fairview.htm

Norman Goodfellows

Norman Goodfellows relentless focus on service and attention to detail has earned them a reputation as one of South Africa’s finest wine and spirit merchants. They have also won Best of Joburg 2014 – Best Bottle Store Award. Now online, they offer many of the same wines they stock in their retail stores – including, naturally, our Fairview selection. Check them out:

Visit: https://www.ngf.co.za/catalogsearch/result/?cat=0&q=fairview

Wine.co.za

Wine.co.za is a content hub of electronically stored information of lip-smacking South African wines and the remarkable people and magical places behind these wines. The Wine.co.za site is best known for finding places and wines in South Africa. It also offers a range of other options like news, a diary, shop and tour routes. If you want to get a better idea of Fairview’s vast range or learn more about the brand, this is a one-stop shop:

Visit http://shop.wine.co.za/

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This week, our Fairview Piekenierskloof Grenache was named one of the top 20 South African Grenache Noirs by renowned South African sommelier Higgo Jacobs. In his review, Jacobs writes that “There is no doubt that Grenache is regaining popularity, especially among the trending wine lists and ‘hipster bars’ worldwide” and that “there is a great variety of styles coming from the category in South Africa”.

At Fairview, we have a long history of Grenache, being one of the first farms in the Cape to introduce this Mediterranean-style variety. For our Top 20 pick, we’ve carefully cultivated a home for old Grenache bush vines along the Piekenierskloof mountains where, with extreme weather conditions and poor soils, the high lying vineyards undeservedly reward us with a profound style of wine. Having provided the backbone to some of our finest blends, we are proud to bring this single variety to the fore. If you’re new to reds, this is a foolproof place to start, offering a lighter style wine with plenty of red fruit and soft tannins. It’s also a lovely winter or summer wine – perfectly at home a little chilled!

Our Fairview Piekenierskloof Grenache is available for R115 a bottle on our online shop. Click here to purchase.
To read Jacob’s full review, click here.

Piekenierskloof wine region in Citrusdal

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The olive oil project started out of a desire to be able to provide our farm workers with regular work, not just seasonal jobs over harvest time. Olives come into picking ripeness just as harvest dies down at the end of March, and with this in mind, Charles and the Fairview team set about planting three Italian varieties of Frantoio, Leccino and Coratina olives at the lower end of our Fairview farm.

Harvesting olives is an interesting practice, requiring our pickers to collect the olives by knocking them out of trees onto cloths laid on the ground. Thereafter, you wash the olives and separate them from the leaves, before crushing the olives and seeds into a paste using large rolling stones to extract an oil.

The result so far has been very successful, with our first few olive oil vintages selling out! We are proud to produce an extra-virgin, cold pressed olive oil made 100% from olives grown on our farm. Our restaurant, The Goatshed, embraces a farm to fork philosophy and using our olive oil is just one added step along Fairview’s journey to be a completely sustainable farm.

Perfect as a treat for yourself or for someone special, this beautifully aromatic olive oil leaves a welcome silkiness on the palate and is complimented by herbal, peppery notes. Pure golden goodness!

Buy now.

See our gallery below for more images during harvest:

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