Pinotage Association’s 2024 Top 10 champions revisited
ON RELEASE, the 2024 Absa Top 10 Pinotage Competition results were trumpeted to and from all corners of South Africa’s Cape winelands and then out to fans around the country, […]
Top 10 Pinotage laureates all benchmarks in their own right
NO SURPRISES among the 2024 Absa Top 10 Pinotage trophy winners. They all have good pedigrees, so to speak, with those having top track records over the past 10 years […]
Top Pinotage and Cape Blends revisited – up close and personal
THE 2023 Absa Top 10 Pinotage and Perold Cape Blend awards have been reported on already, but for many wine lovers it’s not enough to know what the winning wines […]
South Africa’s top Pinotage producers over the past 12 months
WHO KNOWS what happened! With just days to go before the first Pinotage Festival of 2023 came news that the Stellenbosch event scheduled for 13 May had been cancelled. No […]
Under R100 for a bottle of one of the Top 10 Pinotage!
GO PULPIT ROCK! At just R90pb, the Brink Family Vineyards 2019 from the Pulpit Rock winery in Riebeek West is one of the standouts among the 2022 Absa Top 10 […]
Decanter critics loving Pinotage, Winemag brains trust not so much
THE “SECOND EVER” panel-tasting of Pinotage by Decanter in the UK was described by judge Greg Sherwood MW as “a huge success”, with the results published in the Feb […]
Cederberg Private Cellar and Kanonkop fetch top bids at CWG Auction
AT THE 2021 Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction hosted by Bonhams in London, fetching the highest prices on the day were Abrie Beeslaar and the Kanonkop Estate in Stellenbosch, and […]
Top 10 competition showcases consistency of leading Pinotages
IS IT JUST a figment of the imagination or does that bottle of Stellenbosch 1679 stand out front and foremost among the 2021 Absa Top 10? Picture (above) courtesy of the […]
And then there were 20… The 2021 Top 10 Pinotage Competition Finalists
IN A SOMEWHAT quiet build-up, the names of the finalists in the Pinotage Association’s 2021 Absa Top 10 competition were disclosed via social media without so much as a tweet! Twenty […]
Alheit, Sadie and Kanonkop again what bidders wanted most, although…
STRAUSS & Co’s 2021 ‘Cape Heritage’ Fine Wine Auction focused on Chenin Blanc and Pinotage. The online sale also listed red and white blends, including a rare old beauty regarded […]
Soaring demand for South Africa’s top-class Chenin – auction results
YES the top price paid at the online Strauss & Co Fine Wine Auction on 1 June 2020 will be recorded as R17 588 for a single bottle of the […]
