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Best prices for South Africa’s Top 20 Cabs: Cellar Door vs Wine Shops

05/2018 Mike Froud Leave a comment

WITH South Africa’s Cabernet Sauvignon particularly topical in May, following Winemag’s annual review of the category for their Prescient Report, it seemed a good time to circulate an update of the prices being charged for the country’s leading examples – the Top 20 Cabs according to the SA Wine Classification. Cellar-door prices are those posted by the producers and the market survey

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Who still reckons it pays to buy your wine direct from the farm?

05/2018 Mike Froud 7 comments

A SURVEY of what top reds and whites are selling for at South Africa’s leading wine shops relative to cellar-door prices points to consistency in some areas and big discrepancies in others. Those who love to visit the wine routes might be disappointed to discover, if they aren’t already well aware, that what you pay on the farm is often