A rather rare, very unusual wine… Bosman Family Vineyards Nero
SOME WINES are pretty much ‘one of a kind’, almost incomparable. Some of them from the Cape winelands… Nero is the first and only South African wine to be made […]
No Rubicon from 2019! Instead a lighter ‘Meerlust Red’ at half the price
WHO ELSE among the top estates in South Africa would sometimes choose not to make their flagship wine, to skip a vintage in years when the quality or style isn’t […]
Can the Cape winelands’ big hitters in 2019 do it all over again?
IN THE Liquid Assets column of Independent Media’s Personal Finance magazine published in the first quarter of 2020 (see below), four of South Africa’s leading wine producers were in the […]
Highly rated South African wines at under R100 a bottle and still on sale!
THE 2019 Uber Value SA Wine Guide revisited – all of the prices updated following the annual general increases across the industry in March 2020, and excluding all of those […]
Uber Value 2019: very best South African wines at under R100 a bottle
THE VERY BEST VALUE wines of South Africa at under R100 a bottle in 2019. Recommended by the top panels of wine experts locally and internationally. Better than standard gold […]
Liquid Assets: selecting from South Africa’s most-planted varieties
WALKING UP AND DOWN the aisles of a good wine shop, you tend to be faced with a manageable number of options to choose from when it comes to the […]
Wine in a million! Pilgrimage Semillon from vines well over 100 years old
FROM A SMALL block of seriously old, gnarled and twisted Semillon bush vines planted in the Franschhoek valley circa 1905, grapes for The Pilgrimage Semillon are in very short supply. […]
Confirmation of South Africa’s top ‘investable’ wines – 2019 auction data
KANONKOP PAUL SAUER tops the list of most ‘investment-worthy’ South African wines produced over the past 20 years and sold in 2019 at one of the various Strauss & Co […]
The Most Raved-About South African Wines in 2019 – Top Two Dozen
[metaslider id=”27246″] CONTENDERS for the title of SA Wine of the Year? Winery of the Year? Winemaker of the Year? Clearly some awards and ratings count more than others. […]
