April, 2026

This was ADVICO’s most active season yet, with 32 demos harvested across 10 districts and the team covering more than 4,200 km in the process. The work included 15 clone demos, 9 rootstock demos, and 8 cultivar demos, with a total of 1,145 grape samples processed.

The season started two weeks earlier than usual, kicking off with the Chardonnay clone demo at Graham Beck on 6 January, and concluded in March with the Cabernet Sauvignon demo at Vergelegen. It also marked our first harvest at Creation, and Paul Clüver, an exciting milestone for the team.

We look forward to analysing this past season’s results and gaining further insights from the data collected across all sites.