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 ...

The 2024 CWG Auction facilitated by Strauss & Co on 4 and 5 October at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West attracted 276 bidders from 13 countries and raised R16.6-million – all 545 lots were sold ...

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 ...

La Motte’s trusted pair of Syrah and Chardonnay are made exclusively from Franschhoek grapes, and you can taste it. “La Motte’s terroir contributes a beautiful creaminess and drinkability – even at a ...

ONE OF the top dozen or so SA Chenins over the past 10 years, Spier 21 Gables' Master Award with the 2022 vintage at the 2024 Global Chenin Blanc Masters in the UK followed gold at the 2023 Masters ...

WHO WOULD have thought that of the Top 100 winery destinations in the world, seven are in Lebanon, three in Russia? None in China, surprisingly enough, but there’s at least […] ...

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IT WAS NOT that long ago that Domaine des Dieux was making headlines with Chardonnay, scoring 96 at the Decanter World Wine Awards in the UK, winning the trophy for best wine overall at the local ...

AA Badenhorst outside Malmesbury in the Swartland was one of the pioneers of South African bubbly made ‘the original way' invented by the French in the 16th Century. Vondeling of Paarl was another, ...

“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 ...