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The award-winning Springfield Estate in South Africa’s Robertson wine region has a special treat in store for visitors to Vinexpo Asia 2024: a maiden vintage Cap Classique called Garuzis Brut.
Released just this past December, Garuzis Brut is a sparkling wine developed using the traditional Champagne method. Thus the Cap Classique designation, a term used in South Africa, starting in 1992, to distinguish between the different types of sparkling wines produced in the country.
A 50/50 blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Garuzis Brut was aged for 30 months. The result is a crisp, zesty wine with notes of fresh granny smith apple, lime, and white peaches.
It is a new and unique product, and its name holds special significance for Abrie and Jeanette Bruwer, the brother-and-sister team whose family has owned Springfield Estate since its founding in 1902.
Garuzis, pronounced Guh-ROOT-zies, is a place in what is now known as Etosha National Park, in Namibia. It was there that the great-grandmother of the Bruwer siblings spent periods of her childhood in a magical landscape complete with lions and elephants.
The word Garuzis refers to the area’s abundant rock pools, which provided a shallow water source to which the ancestors of the Springfield owners took their livestock during the wet seasons. They would stay months at a time, according to family lore, and built houses on stilts, and enclosures to protect their animals from predators.
