Jabulani
Welcome to
Jabulani
Vineyard & Winery
TASTINGS:
Tastings are done for this season but we will reopen for our annual Christmas Event. We will be open December 10, 11, 17 & 18 from 11am to 4pm. Admission for the event is a donation – either monetary or food – to the Food Bank. We will have live music, Christmas goodies, mulled wine, chestnuts roasting and of course, wine tasting. There are no reservations required for this standing event (there will be some seating but it is set aside for seniors and people with mobility challenges). So bundle up and come enjoy some winter fun while supporting our local food bank.
PURCHASING WINE:
Wine can be purchased in person at our retail store or via email or by phone. Please give us a call (613-454-5460) or send us an email (either tom@jabulani.ca or info@jabulani.ca ) to make an appointment to purchase your wine.
FREE DELIVERY OF WINE to Ottawa and boundary areas
If you would like your wine to be delivered, please send an email to tom@jabulani.ca with your case lot order (12 bottles, mixed or not). We need an email address, a delivery address and phone number on your message. The order will be entered into our system and the order info will be emailed back to you so that you can complete your payment.
All paid orders will be safely packed and delivered to your door step. If you would like less than 12, you can arrange a pick up time at the winery or purchase directly from the retail store.
Note: delivery areas will be City of Ottawa West from the Rideau everyday except Thursdays (including downtown, Glebe, Westboro, Hindenburg, Nepean, Richmond, Ashton, Munster, Kanata, Stittsville, Barrhaven, Riverside South, AltaVista, Kemptville, Manotick, Carp, Carleton Place, North Gower and Almonte).
Thursdays, we will deliver to Ottawa East of the Rideau - Vanier, Overbrook, Gloucester, St. Laurent, Innes, Blackburn Hamlet, Orleans, Navan, Cumberland and Rockland. If you do not see your area in these lists, please give us a call and we can see if it is possible to add your area.
Jabulani is a Zulu word meaning happiness or rejoice and so this is the place of happiness. It was what Tom said he was feeling as we walked the property before buying it in 2006. When we bought it, it was just a fallow field – nothing on it – but we fell in love with it all the same. Tom had been making wine since he was a teenager back in Africa and we knew we would always be making wine, just never dreamed it would be from our own grapes! Tom has used methods that he learned while visiting the wine regions of the Cape Province of South Africa near to where his grandfather lived. This seems to have given our wines a unique flavour that is favoured by our customers and wine judges alike. To date we have fifteen international awards and five Canadian championship awards, including a Double Gold for our Marquette Chete 2015, and intend on continuing to enter competitions to prove that Canadians can make world class wines.
We started planting vines in the spring of 2007 and our first harvest was in 2010. Jabulani opened its doors in 2011. It was a small venue at that time – a tasting patio with five barrels as tables and the store was run out of the bottom portion of our home.
Today we have eight different varieties of cold climate vines numbering just over 11,000 on 11 acres of the farm. We have expanded the winery to include a separate building from our home and it is there that we not only make our award winning wines but where we also host events such as weddings. There are three favourite locations on our farm where couples have chosen to have their ceremonies; by the pond behind our home, within the old orchard and the most popular has been in our crush pad. The winery can accommodate events of up to 180 people indoors and 100 people outside at our tasting patio.
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