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Category: SA Sparkling Championships

And then there were more seriously good wines at < R150

5 STARS in Platter’s 2025 SA Wine Guide, from one of the country’s top winemakers in Donovan Rall, using grapes grown on the mountains in the back of beyond, priced at under R150pb and not yet sold out… Not even released yet! The WinterHoek Sauvignon Blanc 2023 from Callender Peak

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How about that! There was wonderful bubbly pre Champagne

ANCESTRAL(E)… Oldest method of making sparkling wine, whereby the wine is bottled during the (single) fermentation process, before the completion of alcoholic fermentation. (Excerpt from Mini Wine Encyclopaedia on Top Wine SA) Less involved, a shorter route to bottling than Champagne (France), Cava (Spain) or Cap Classique (South Africa). No

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