Cape Bordeaux-style blend that had Veritas judges beaming
THE TOP-RATED wine going into the final round of judging at the 2025 Veritas Awards – the biggest, longest-running wine competition in South Africa where very high scores are tough […]
14 wine farm restaurants lauded in SA Gourmet Guide 2026
ONCE AGAIN the food critics have spoken – those whose votes count towards South Africa’s JHP Gourmet Guide. And once again, La Colombe at Silvermist on Constantia Nek is their […]
Taste the very finest at Caroline’s White Wine Review
Caroline’s 2025 edition of her annual White Wine & Cap Classique Review, one of the most prestigious tasting events on the South African wine calendar, will be staged on Thursday […]
First definitive book on South African Sauvignon Blanc
For the first time, the story of South Africa’s most popular white wine cultivar has been brought together in a single publication: The Story of South African Sauvignon Blanc. The […]
Veritas Awards revisited… The scores of all the double golds
WELL, 99% of them… A few of the wine producers who entered the 2025 Veritas Awards and went on to win double gold either didn’t respond to queries about their […]
Great Sauvignon Blanc from across the Cape – ‘Top 10’ in 2025
“FOUR VINTAGES. Wooded and unwooded. Three wards and six districts across three regions. This is the story of the 2025 FNB Sauvignon Blanc SA Top 10.” That’s according to South Africa’s […]
Perold wins at Veritas ’25… But what was it up against?
NO MEAN FEAT! The most highly rated of over 1200 entries in the 2025 edition of the longest-running and biggest South African wine and spirit competition… The 2022 vintage of […]
The humble Duke of Wellington a Top 10 Pinotage at R80pb
IT’S SURPRISING to find neither Kanonkop nor Rijk’s among the winners of an Absa Top 10 – such are their good track records in this competition held by the Pinotage […]
Top Shiraz from among smallest, highest blocks in Constantia
WINNER of the trophy for best South African red wine at the 2025 International Wine Challenge, the Beau Constantia Stella 2022 was released some months after the competition results were […]
12 bottles of Mullineux Semillon sell for R50K – CWG Auction
THE 2024 VINTAGE of Mullineux ‘The Gris’ Semillon WO Swartland fetched the top price at the 2025 Cape Winemakers Guild Auction conducted by Strauss & Co at the Lord Charles […]
A hundred years in the making… A future still unfolding
Bellevue, the estate behind the world’s first bottled Pinotage sold to the public, continues to uphold a century of heritage with every vintage. To rediscover Bellevue Wine Estate is to […]
Paul René invites wine- and fun-lovers to a Splash of Pink
Paul René Cap Classique will again host the annual Splash of Pink Bubbly Festival in Robertson – just 1km or so outside the town on the McGregor road. Monica and […]