IT’S ONE OF the most chic venues in South Africa’s Cape winelands – a classy wine-tasting lounge, bar and terrace as well as a bistro at which to experience top whites, reds and bubblies on their own or while enjoying a good lunch or tapas dinner, inside or out. At
“THEY STOOD toe-to-toe with Hawke’s Bay and Margaret River [of Australia] and all but the finest Burgundy [of France]”. High praise indeed from the panel that assessed 128 South African wines for their Chardonnay report in the May ’25 issue of the UK’s Decanter Magazine. The wines were submitted by
THE FOLLOWING are among the statistics presented by the International Organisation of Vine & Wine in the OIV’s 2025 report on the state of the wine industry internationally (2024 data): South Africa ranked eighth in terms of the world’s major wine producers, down from seventh in the OIV’s 2024 report,
HOW ABOUT THAT! First, that the Pinotage Association put the Grand Pinotage “project” to the test in a blind tasting of the 2019 vintage conducted by Gilbert & Gaillard, based in France. Second, that one of the wines involved rated higher than any Pinotage has done before at a G&G
SO THE RESTAURANT critics have pronounced on the top farms to lunch or dine at in the Cape, among the vines, but which wines from these estates are as good as the food they serve… Here are the most highly recommended reds, whites and other beauties from those South African
AS INTERESTING as the choice of top laureates at South Africa’s 2025 Eat Out Restaurant Awards in Cape Town were the names of the newcomers praised on stage. Big winners on the night were Salsify at the Roundhouse in Cape Town’s Camps Bay (Restaurant of the Year), The LivingRoom in
THE NUMBER of wines on the market that are made from seriously old Pinotage vineyards (way over 50 years) edged back up from three to four following the release of the 2023 Heritage Block Pinotage from Herman Coertze’s Meerendal Wine Estate in Durbanville, Western Cape. Meerendal was one of the
THE FLUTE is dead… Long live the flute! You could say the same about the coupe… Wine glasses, that is, stemware for sparkling wine specifically. Is there a right and wrong one to serve bubbles in? Well, yes and no. In part it depends on the occasion, e.g. chilling, doing
Every three months, members of Caroline’s Quarterly Wine Club look forward to more new discoveries from top South African producers. “Wine lovers can sit back and have our fine selections delivered wherever you are in the country,” says Caroline Rillema of Caroline’s Fine Wine Cellar in Cape Town. “We select
IT’S HAPPENED again… And no doubt once more there will be naysayers, people who can’t believe their eyes and ears, and yet… The humble, big-volume Douglas Green Chardonnay from the Wellington cellars of DGB has won gold and placed among the Top 10 in the 2025 edition of Chardonnay du
PINOTAGE, Pinotage, Pinotage… At the Truter family’s Beyerskloof Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, they call themselves “The Home of Pinotage”, and for good reason. On the winelist, the number of different expressions by the bottle or by the glass stands at nine – more if you add the Pinotage-led Cape Blends.
Every three months, members of Caroline’s Quarterly Wine Club look forward to more new discoveries from top South African producers. “Wine lovers can sit back and have our fine selections delivered wherever you are in the country,” says Caroline Rillema of Caroline’s Fine Wine Cellar in Cape Town. “We select
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