With each new vintage, our goal is always to make small improvements in the vineyards and in the winery to ultimately continue making better wines. Winemaking is a game of inches, not miles. However, with each new vintage of our Merlot Rosé, the wine seems to be making massive leaps forward. What was once a…
Sugar and Spice blog no. 1
22 years ago the very first vine went into the ground on Lomond. Our goal from the outset remains unchanged; to create South Africa’s finest cool climate wines which are comparable to the best in the world. The pursuit of quality is, by definition, incremental and perpetual. Over decades, we have studied every slope on…
Happy New Year, everyone. What a year it was. For many, ourselves included, 2020 brought challenges unlike anything experienced before. And while we welcome the new beginning – 2021 is a blank canvas rather than a solution. What we make of it is entirely up to us. In November last year we introduced you to…
Last year we introduced you to one of our areas conservation heroes, Princess, and her team at Siyanda Alien Clearing. Unfortunately government funding for alien plant clearing has not returned since the start of the pandemic. However, Princess and her team remain hard at work on Lomond. And currently, they are tackling a hillside with…
13 December, 2020 Finish your year well by participating in the Lomond Open Water Swim taking place on Sunday 13 December 2020! Whilst you are very close to South Africa’s Great White Shark capital, you will be safe while swimming in a beautiful freshwater dam surrounded by vineyards and fynbos valleys. An absolute treat as…
2020 has been anything but conventional. It has had many of us reprioritizing the things that matter most in life. As Black Friday nears, it was clear we needed to take a different approach this year. One that aligned better with the core values of Lomond which are conservation and community. We would like to…
