None of Platter’s 28 ‘Wines of the Year’ from their ‘Winery of the Year’?
IN THE 2021 edition of Platter’s South African Wine Guide, the number of 5 Star laureates runs to 210 – in the 2020 edition there were 125, a year before […]
Platter’s 2021 SA Wine Guide under fire even before book goes on sale
THE LAUNCH of Platter’s 41st South African Wine Guide has not gone smoothly, to say the least. In advance of the hardcopy version reaching the book stores, the publishers chose […]
If you only buy one SA port this year, make it De Krans Vintage Res 2017
NO OTHER CAPE PORT has been more highly rated during the past 12 months. In 2020 it was judged Best in Class at the Trophy Wine Show, Best in Class […]
Veritas Vertex Award goes to Bordeaux-style Orchestra from KWV
SOUTH AFRICA’S 2020 Veritas Awards attracted some 1300 entries that were assessed over five days by 64 judges teamed-up into panels of three – all local wine experts, as the […]
De Grendel goes back three centuries, four generations – and counting
2020 marks the 300th anniversary of De Grendel as a Cape landmark. Renowned for its award-winning wines and fine-dining restaurant, the estate on the Tygerberg hills outside Cape Town […]
Top cellar at Trophy Wine Show appears to have done it again in Platter’s
WAITING AND WONDERING… First the publishers put the word out that the Winery of the Year in their 2021 edition of Platter’s SA Wine Guide will be announced to the […]
Ultra Value from Eagle’s Cliff, Flagstone, Koelenhof, McGregor, Perdeberg
THERE WERE 320 entries in South Africa’s 2020 Ultra Value Wine Challenge. 73 won silver, 64 won gold, 23 wines won double gold and of these 10 were lauded as […]
Semillon and Cabernet Franc the standouts in Winemag Minority Report
ACCORDING to Winemag’s 2020 Prescient Minority Report, the focus of the competition is on South African “wines from varieties whose respective total plantings do not exceed 2000ha… this is a […]
Holden Manz and Old Road Wine Co storm through at Syrah du Monde
THERE WERE 307 wines from 27 countries on the tasting bench at Syrah du Monde 2020, the 14th edition of this international competition held in the Rhône Valley, France. After […]
Newstead’s Cap Classique triumph no fluke – whatever name it goes by
“THE WINE stood out for its absolute harmony – spectacular citrus purity with intricate biscuity etchings. Truly pristine” – 2020 Cap Classique Challenge judging convenor Heidi Duminy describing the competition […]
Round Mountain: apparently Sauvignon Blanc doesn’t get much better
SURELY it’s the South African Sauvignon Blanc most raved about by most critics in 2020… With the results of the International Wine Challenge (UK) as well as the Veritas Awards […]
Kershaw’s Pinot Noir fast becoming as successful as his Chardonnay
IT WAS AS recently as 2012 that British Master of Wine Richard Kershaw established his business in Elgin to make world-class Chardonnay, Shiraz and Pinot Noir that would show […]
