IT'S RIDICULOUS! A number of top winery proprietors or cellarmasters in the Cape winelands turned down the invitation to be listed in Platter's 2024 South African Wine Guide. In this the 44th edition ...

Double Gold winners at SA Wine Industry's 2024 Veritas Awards reveal what scored our of 100... Most scored 93 or 94, but eight scored 95+ ...

NOT MANY wine producers have access to vineyards in the Elandskloof valley of the Overberg district, Western Cape. Anthonij Rupert Wyne of Franschhoek is one of them, and the Chardonnay grapes from ...

OVER THE YEARS, it's been one of South Africa's most highly rated blended red wines – not only according to experts at the Veritas Awards but also those at the Decanter World Wine Awards (UK), the ...

THE ART of wine… Wine in art… Sponsored by Nedbank, the Cape Winemakers Guild (CWG) Auction and, in particular, the showcase tasting events during the build-up to the annual sale had an AI dimension ...

WHO CAN remember when last The Mentors Perold from KWV of Paarl wasn't included among the finalists of South Africa's Perold Cape Blend Competition! A simple explanation is that having been among the ...

“There's one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that's an idea whose time has come” – Johan Reyneke of Organic Wines South Africa, quoting novelist Victor Hugo. IT IS ESTIMATED that ...

NUMBER TWO and counting… Newstead Lund Family Vineyards of Plettenberg Bay claimed their first victory at the Amorim Cap Classique Challenge in 2020, with the 2015 vintage of their Brut Blanc de ...

BESIDES the incredible achievement of Stellenrust, who won three of the Top 10 awards for the second year in succession, the results of the 2024 Standard Bank Chenin Blanc Challenge organised by the ...

A 96-POINT rating for a blended white from Somerset West, scores of 95/100 for three other white combos from cellars in Constantia, Durbanville and Stellenbosch, and ditto for a Durbanville Sauvignon ...

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