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Dr. E. Supp writes: @@@ Dornier Wines. Stellenbosch Chenin blanc Cocoa Hill 2008: grünstroh, feine, saubere Fruchtaromen in der Nase, am Gaumen saftig, fest, schöner, frischer Wein **** Stellenbosch Donatus white 2007: silbriges Grünstroh, etwas rauchige Bananenschale, am Gaumen recht saftig und fest strukturiert, guter Stoff *** Coastal Region The pirate of cocoa hill 2006: dichtes, gutes Rot, feine Kirschfrucht mit leicht zedriger Würze, gute Dichte, aber etwas wenig Saft und noch leichte Schärfe in den Tanninen **** Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon 2006: frisches, dichtes Rot, noch sehr verschlossen, aber mit sauberem, tiefem Duft und klassischer, eleganter Struktur, braucht noch Zeit *****? Stellenbosch Donatus 2006: dunkles, schönes Rubin, tiefer, etwas zedriger Duft, viel Frucht und Extrakt am Gaumen, festes, noch junges Tannin, gutes Entwicklungspotenzial **** Stellenbosch Pinotage 2006: frisches, dichtes Rubinrot, süße Blaubeeren im Duft, saftig, rund, von festen Tanninen getragen, schön.

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Country Life on the Dornier Bodega Restaurant

Gred Landmann: There is something utterly irresistible about spending a day in the country, eating the food on a wine estate, drinking their wine and gazing at the vineyards from which grapes were harvested. Read on





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The Pirate of Cocoa Hill - Dornier's Range of Playful Wines

South Africa, Stellenbosch, Summer 2006 / 2007; In a time of seafaring and spice, pirates played in Table Bay...If you'll believe it! A certain Long Ben presented us with abundant inspiration in the creation of the Cocoa Hill wines, two playful and fun-filled new additions to Stellenbosch producer Dornier Wines' acclaimed range. The Pirate The Cape at the time of its Dutch occupation was a fascinating place. The era evokes images of a wild and uncharted continent; mysterious indigenous peoples; ivory sails fluttering above burly wooden ships; and the rich, exotic colours and textures of the treasures of the East - demand for the latter in the West, the very reason for the Cape of Good Hope's existence. This was the world of Long Ben and his gang of erstwhile brutes. Long Ben was a feared English pirate who pillaged ships along the Spice Route and around the Cape at the time of its Dutch occupation, archives dating from the seventeenth century indicate. Following a long line of offences, he eventually had to flee the authorities or face prosecution and ingeniously assumed a new identity under the guise of winegrowing in the Stellenbosch region. Long Ben's grapes grew in deep, dark soils on a hilltop in the Blaauwklippen area - home to Dornier Wines today - which he named Cocoa Hill and was seen peering out to the seas from often& longing for the ocean and his old ways, it is said.

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Dornier Donatus White featured in Wine Library TV

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Dornier Donatus White 2004

The Alchemy of Wine, Stories

BUSINESS DAY: If he were able, says Christoph Dornier, he would write what he paints. Since he believes he cannot convincingly express himself with words, Dornier’s surrealistic stories — labyrinths of dreams, riddles, mythology, secrets and symbols — are captured, in unfettered colour and imagery, on canvas. Dornier is intrigued by metamorphosis. A large painting of a female torso with the head of Zeus transforming into a two-headed swan overlooks the tasting room at the winery. “The thought that a plant can become a human being and vice versa, a face can become a fire, or a female body, an instrument, is an attractive thought to me. With a paint stroke, an abstract work can suddenly produce an animal. Out of coincidence, something new can develop.”

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The Alchemy of Wine, Stories

BUSINESS DAY: If he were able, says Christoph Dornier, he would write what he paints. Since he believes he cannot convincingly express himself with words, Dornier’s surrealistic stories — labyrinths of dreams, riddles, mythology, secrets and symbols — are captured, in unfettered colour and imagery, on canvas. Dornier is intrigued by metamorphosis. A large painting of a female torso with the head of Zeus transforming into a two-headed swan overlooks the tasting room at the winery. “The thought that a plant can become a human being and vice versa, a face can become a fire, or a female body, an instrument, is an attractive thought to me. With a paint stroke, an abstract work can suddenly produce an animal. Out of coincidence, something new can develop.”

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Dornier Wines featured in One Small Seed Magazine

Combining elegant wines and award-winning architecture, Dornier Wine Estate creatively fuses the opposites of change and stasis, seriousness and pleasure, complexity and simplicity. By Mia Russell
Nestled in the heart of the Stellenbosch Valley and surrounded by lush green mountains, lies the elegant Dornier Wine Estate. Claiming both local and fast-growing international fame for their wines, Dornier is also an architectural gem and in an industry where competition is rife and differences often indistinguishable, the distinct quality and unconventional style of Dornier Wine Estate, sets it apart and places it a cut above the rest.

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