The 2022 vintage of Franschhoek Cellar’s Statue de Femme Sauvignon Blanc clinched another Gold award at the bi-annual Mundus Vini wine competition’s Spring tasting in February, 2023.
Hosted in Germany, these esteemed awards receive over 11 000 entries from winemakers across the world each year.
Mundus Vini’s highly qualified international jury, comprising oenologists, wine-makers, professional wine traders, sommeliers, and expert journalists taste a wide variety of wines, fortified wines and sparkling wines in “blind” tasting rounds each year.
- The Statue de Femme Sauvignon Blanc boasts an expressive bouquet of tropical aromas, tinged with capsicum, opening up to attractive Cape Gooseberry, passion fruit and green fig – all balanced by a lively-but-gentle coated acidity, culminating in a beautifully fresh finish. It is easy to see why it impressed the judging panel, and continues to be a tried, trusted and terrific choice for wine lovers everywhere.
The target of the Mundus Vini competition is to promote the quality, and the marketing, of the wines entered.
The awards are intended to offer producers, wine-growers, importers, and consumers a forum that permits a comparison of wines and offers valuable help with decision-making and orientation when buying wine and, secondly, reaches a wide public.
While welcomed by wine customers as a helpful orientation aid, awards provide producers with recognition for their hard work. Producers can measure their own standard of performance in international competition, and the awards they win permit prestigious labelling of successful products for marketing.
“Awards and accolades are always a welcome acknowledgement of the hard work that takes place in our vineyards and cellar. Achieving a Gold award in the Mudus Vini competition recognises the quality and excellence that South African wines have to offer on a global scale. What is as important to us, is that the people who enjoy our wines continue to see Franschhoek Cellar as a label that offers wines of a consistently exceptional quality, showing off the unique terroir of the Franschhoek Valley. We aim to make wines that are always tried, trusted and terrific… Bottles that can take pride of place at any table or celebration,” says Franschhoek Cellar’s Winemaker.
Franschhoek Cellar’s Statue de Femme Sauvignon Blanc can be purchased at https://shop.franschhoekcellar.co.za – along with a range of Cap Classique, white and red wines from the Franschhoek Valley.
