Nederburg has scored in Germany, one of its key export markets, by winning gold and silver at the 2010 Berliner Wein Trophy Awards, one of the country’s most prestigious events. Gold went to a 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon and silver to a 2009 Sauvignon Blanc. The estate, judged South Africa’s most successful wine producer in the International Wine and Spirit Competition in London last year, has been steadily building its presence in other countries in Europe, as well as in Africa and more recently in the Americas and parts of Asia. Marketing manager Rudolph du Toit reports that a range of specially produced wines signed under an agreement with Fifa for the 2010 World Cup, a Cabernet Sauvignon, a Sauvignon blanc and a dry Rose, are selling briskly in some foreign markets, headed by Finland, Brazil and the Netherlands.
