Thamnus Wines

Thamnus Wines "A wine that stops you in your tracks" Tim Atkin MW

Our Chardonnay has now scored 95 points four years running in Tim Atkin's South Africa Wine special report — celebrated ...
02/09/2026

Our Chardonnay has now scored 95 points four years running in Tim Atkin's South Africa Wine special report — celebrated last night at Vergelegen with the man himself, and Springbok great Tiaan Strauss.

Tim Atkin MW doesn't rate maiden vintages highly very often. He made an exception for our 2021.Three years on, he's stil...
01/09/2026

Tim Atkin MW doesn't rate maiden vintages highly very often. He made an exception for our 2021.

Three years on, he's still rating us at 95 — the 2022, the 2023, and now the 2024, just out in his South Africa Special Report 2026.

"It is the same small group walking the same rows every year," says winemaker PJ Geyer. "A rating gives me something solid to hand back to them. That's the part I care about."

Consistency is the sum of all small efforts, repeated.

Right now, it's wax and labels.Every bottle on the farm gets finished by hand - dipped, turned, set down to cool. It's s...
28/08/2026

Right now, it's wax and labels.

Every bottle on the farm gets finished by hand - dipped, turned, set down to cool. It's slow, and it's not the kind of work anyone posts about. But it's happening all week, ahead of a bigger one: next week, publishes his 2026 South Africa Special Report.

PJ said something worth repeating. "The most overlooked part of terroir is the people." Soil and slope get written about. Hands rarely do.

So before anything else; this is for the hands that do it, vintage after vintage, mostly unseen.

26/08/2026

Every vine on these ten hectares gets handled in August. Read, cut back, tied down, one at a time and each cut decides where next season's buds will sit. It is the heaviest work of the year, done in the cold, on bare wood, weeks before there is anything to show for it. Then the buds break, and the vineyard stops waiting for anybody.

Our Pinot Noir is destemmed rather than kept whole-bunch, and it is worked firmly.That is deliberate. It is what gives t...
24/08/2026

Our Pinot Noir is destemmed rather than kept whole-bunch, and it is worked firmly.

That is deliberate. It is what gives the wine its structure and its backbone, and it is why these bottles are worth keeping.

Every vine on these ten hectares gets handled in August. Read, cut back, tied down, one at a time and each cut decides w...
17/08/2026

Every vine on these ten hectares gets handled in August. Read, cut back, tied down, one at a time and each cut decides where next season's buds will sit.

It is the heaviest work of the year, done in the cold, on bare wood, weeks before there is anything to show for it. Then the buds break and the vineyard stops waiting for anybody.

Four vintages of the Chardonnay and four of the Pinot Noir, open together at the Manor House.Tasting a site back through...
14/08/2026

Four vintages of the Chardonnay and four of the Pinot Noir, open together at the Manor House.

Tasting a site back through its vintages is the honest way to show what it does and the people who should see that first are the ones who have
been pouring these wines and explaining them to guests since the
beginning.

Local trade have never been only buyers to us. Thank you for making the drive.

Someone is out here every winter morning, working each vine by hand, deciding which shoot stays, which goes before the b...
03/08/2026

Someone is out here every winter morning, working each vine by hand, deciding which shoot stays, which goes before the buds even think about breaking. No machine does this. It takes someone who knows this particular row, these particular vines well enough to read what they need.

That's the part of Thamnus you don't taste directly, but you do taste. The care isn't a nice idea on the back label. It's a person in a beanie, mountains behind them, getting it right vine by vine.

PJ picks the Chardonnay early. Earlier than most people would dare.It means less sugar, less alcohol, a wine with sharpe...
28/07/2026

PJ picks the Chardonnay early. Earlier than most people would dare.
It means less sugar, less alcohol, a wine with sharper elbows than what you'd expect off this label. Some vintages he's second-guessed himself standing in the row, secateurs in hand wondering if he's jumping the gun.

He hasn't been wrong yet.

That's the whole approach here - trust what the mountain and the season are telling you, even when it means picking before you feel ready.

This Chardonnay is what happens when you don't wait for permission.

Six bottles, four times a year. Always a mix - Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, whichever is ready to travel that season.You'l...
24/07/2026

Six bottles, four times a year. Always a mix - Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, whichever is ready to travel that season.

You'll know about new releases before anyone else does, and get a first look at anything we bottle small, or pull out of the vintage library.

Every box carries a poem. PJ writes one by hand for each shipment - not a card, an actual poem addressed to whoever's opening it.

We're calling it Thamnus Confidential. It stays small on purpose, so founding places are limited.

The waitlist is open.

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Off The Hemel En Aarde Road
Hermanus
7200

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 04:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 16:00
Thursday 09:00 - 16:00
Friday 09:00 - 16:00

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