Four days of shiraz.
07 - 10 October2026
Two sit down masterclasses and two parties. Forty wines across four days, and almost none of them ever open in the shop.
The week
Four sessions and no two the same. Wednesday and Thursday are sit down masterclasses in the tasting room, ten wines each, run twice a day. Friday and Saturday the doors open, the glasses come out and twenty shiraz go on the tables.
Session 1 · Wednesday 7 October
Three producers, three wines each, and one wildcard to finish. Sitting down, glass by glass, in order. Fourteen seats a sitting, two sittings in the day, so everyone can hear and everyone gets asked what they think.
Hilltop south of Riebeek Kasteel. Blue schist, ground about 80 per cent rock.
Tim Atkin MW scored it 100 and made it his Red Wine of the Year.
The new release. First vintage under Eben Meiring.
Same hands, same year. Only the soil changes.
Granite of the Paardeberg.
Iron rich soils on the Kasteelberg. The rarest of the three.
The estate shiraz, and the bottom rung on purpose.
Shiraz led blend.
The flagship shiraz.
The wildcard, poured blind. Nobody gets told what it is until the glasses are down.
Three verticals side by side. We do not sell wine by the glass, so this is the one week of the year you get to line these up.
Session 2 · Thursday 8 October
A different ten. Ten benchmark shiraz from across the Cape, one from each of the places that matter, poured in order. Fourteen seats a sitting, two sittings in the day.
Polkadraai Hills.
Blue schist, hand printed label, no new oak.
The highest vineyards in the Cape.
One soil, bottled on its own.
The flagship shiraz.
Named for the ground it grew in.
ArtiSons Family Wines.
High on the Helderberg.
Bottelary Hills. Planted 1968, one of the first single vineyard wines in South Africa.
Niels Verburg's estate shiraz.
A different room to Wednesday. Come to both and you will have tasted twenty of the best shiraz in the country in two days.
Sessions 3 and 4 · Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October
No seating plan and no running order. Twenty shiraz from across the Cape are open at once, both nights. Come when you like, taste in whatever order you like, and stay as long as you like.
Every wine on the table is on the shelf. Taste it, then take it home.
Tickets
Seat numbers are live, so what you see is what is actually left.
Before you come
The Good Stuff Company tasting room. The full address goes out with your confirmation.
We hold your seat and send you the bank details. Pay by transfer or in the shop and the seat is yours.
Tell us more than seven days before and we move you or refund you. Inside seven days we will try to resell the seat, and if we do you get your money back.
Ten wines is ten wines. Arrange a lift or a cab before you arrive. We would rather see you again.
WhatsApp us on +27 60 661 5507 and a person will answer.
Everything poured is on the shelf, and the till is open.
Staff only
Scan a ticket code with a scanner or your phone, or type the reference. It looks the booking up live and marks people in.
The PIN is in the Settings tab of the ticket sheet. It is asked for once, and only lives in this page until you close it.
Point it at the guest's code. It reads it on its own.
A handheld barcode scanner types the code and presses enter for you, so it works with no camera at all.
Check the sittings below, then give us your details. We hold the seats the moment you send this.
Tickets are for a specific date, so please book with care. If you need to cancel, let us know as soon as you can.
More than seven days before the event, you get a full refund. Between seven days and forty eight hours, we refund half, since we may not manage to fill your seat. Inside forty eight hours we can't refund, but we'll gladly issue a credit note for a future event, or you can send someone in your place.
If the ticket holder can't attend due to death or hospitalisation, contact us and we'll refund in full.
Refunds go back to the original payment method within ten business days.
A seat is held for 48 hours from the time you book. It is confirmed once payment reflects. Unpaid seats are released after 48 hours so someone else can take them.
Wines are subject to availability. If a listed wine cannot be got in time we replace it with one of equal or better standing and tell you before the day.
Nobody under the age of 18 may attend. Bring identification if you look under 25.
We use your name, phone number and email to manage your booking and to contact you about this event. Nothing else.
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