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 winners for the umpteenth time in 2023, the 2020 vintage that they triumphed with then was still
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 Blancs applauded as the overall winner. In the 2024 challenge to South African sparkling wine producers, hosted by
JUDGED the best wine overall at the 2024 South African Terroir Wine Awards, the success of the 2018 vintage of Jonathan’s Ridge Single Vineyard Pinotage from Springfontein in Stanford follows a trophy for the 2013 vintage and the Best in Class award for the 2007 in previous editions of the
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 the way. The V’know Wine Appreciation Club is a ticket to discovering interesting, good-value reds and whites recommended by
IT IS ESTIMATED that as of 2024 the two to three dozen organic wineries in South Africa account for less than 1% of the country’s total production. That’s according to Organic Wines SA, a new association “encompassing the core, established, certified-organic wine estates”, with the objective being “to broadly market
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 Veritas Awards and then striking gold at South Africa’s Trophy Wine Show. But never
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, their Rurale reported to be the first local wine officially recognised as having come about according to
FOR THE Ferreiras to call the second super-premium wine from their Stellenbosch estate ‘Tokara Simonsberg Cabernet Sauvignon’ is intriguing. The vines that the grapes come from for this single-varietal wine are planted on the slopes of the Simonsberg, but the same applies to other Cabernets from Tokara that carry the
Caroline’s 2024 edition of her annual White Wine & Cap Classique Review, hailed as one of the most prestigious tasting events on the South African wine calendar, will be staged on Thursday 12 September in the Members’ Lounge at the DHL Stadium alongside Fritz Sonnenburg Road in Green Point,
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 Chenin industry association of South Africa also shone the spotlight on two more producers who picked up
SOUTH AFRICA’S top-rated wines during the six months to date that are priced at under R150 a bottle – March to August 2024. These are the most highly recommended of the highly recommended by the top wine tasting panels in terms of what’s on offer at below this price ceiling
NO SURPRISES among the 2024 Absa Top 10 Pinotage trophy winners. They all have good pedigrees, so to speak, with those having top track records over the past 10 years in terms of the SA Wine Classification including Beeslaar, Diemersdal Reserve, Flagstone Writer’s Block, Francois van Niekerk, Kanonkop and La
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