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 ...
THE DOUBLE GOLD winners at the 2024 Veritas Awards have disclosed what the competition organisers will not… Apart from presenting the Vertex trophy for the most highly rated of the double gold ...
[metaslider id=”21576″] FROM JANUARY to August 2023, the top panels of wine experts judged some 700 of South Africa’s finest to be at least high silver or gold ...
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 ...
OF THE 61 entries from the 48 producers who submitted their wines for assessment in the 2024 Prescient Cabernet Sauvignon Report published by Winemag.co.za, 28 rated 90 points or more on a 100-point ...
ON RELEASE, the 2024 Absa Top 10 Pinotage Competition results were trumpeted to and from all corners of South Africa's Cape winelands and then out to fans around the country, around the world. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
There’s nothing elitist or intimidating about it. Think of it as going wine-routing, exploring the length, breadth and every corner of the South African winelands with experienced guides to help show ...