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
STELLENBOSCH, Swartland, Constantia… Wine from Kanonkop, the Sadie Family and Klein Constantia were most in demand as regards South African producers represented at Strauss & Co’s ‘2015 Vintage’ online auction concluded on 10 March ’25. The highest price fetched at the sale was R7035 (US$386) for a single bottle (750ml)
BUKETTRAUBE can be a lovely aromatic white wine, so why is David Nieuwoudt’s outfit among the Cederberg mountains the only top South African producer that makes one? Well, this is a grape variety particularly susceptible to downy/powdery mildew, a serious disease that can cause severe crop loss and which is
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
A PINOTAGE that originates in a vineyard unlike any other: 24 double rows of vines planted in a fan-like semi-circle to expose the plants to varying amounts of sunlight through 180 degrees. A tiny patch of land in a residential area at the southernmost tip of the Jonkershoek ward in
STELLENBOSCH, Franschhoek, Paarl, Hermanus, Stanford… Besides those tasting rooms on South Africa’s wine farms, among the vines, there are wine bars in the towns of the country’s winelands that can be just as much fun – some representing a particular brand or brands, some wines of the area and beyond.
