Lozärn Kay’s Legacy 2020

“The Lozärn wines honour Smuts family matriarch Kay – as a child, Kathleen May, known as Kay, relocated to Lucerne, Switzerland with her mother and sister during World War I and the name of the town would come to mean much to her. At the age of 21, she married Sebastian Smuts and they ended up in Somerset West, were Smuts managed Vergelegen. Kay’s urge to farm herself saw them buying land in the Robertson valley in 1923, the farm called Lucerne and today, Kay’s grandsons and great-grandsons run various agricultural businesses in the greater Robertson area.

As for Lozärn in particular, this came about when the Smuts family acquired Bonnievale farm Doornbosch in 2017 –winemaker Salome Buys-Vermeulen and husband Sybrand had been running the property since 2012 making wine under the Fröhlich label but the name was then changed to Lozärn, a Swiss German take on Lucerne.

What sets the Lozärn range apart is that historic Bordeaux variety Carmenère features prominently. Buys-Vermeulen became taken with the variety and a vineyard was planted in 2014, total production of a single-variety wine now at 1 300 bottles while it also features in the range’s Cape Bordeaux Red Blend.” – CE

In honour of Granny Kay, “a woman of the earth”, who left behind a beautiful legacy of passion and effort, we created a Bordeaux-inspired blend to celebrate with
family and friends.

46 % Cabernet Franc, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 9% Carménère