Taste the very finest at Caroline’s White Wine Review
Caroline’s 2024 edition of her annual White Wine & Cap Classique Review, hailed as one of the most prestigious tasting events on the South African wine calendar, will be […]
Le Riche shows again that Stellenbosch Cab among very best
THE LE RICHE cellar has always been there or thereabouts when considering South Africa’s leading producers of Cabernet Sauvignon over the past decade or so! However, the last three years […]
Five trophies for South Africa at Global Fine Wine Challenge, Sydney
A COMPETITION of which the results are talked up in stages, the Global Fine Wine Challenge in Sydney picks up where the Six Nations Wine Challenge left off in 2019, […]
R20K paid for bottle of Vin de Constance – small bottle, vintage 1987
WHAT TO MAKE of Strauss & Co’s July 2020 online auction of fine South African wines?! For the auction catalogue, click here. Full results of the sale here. There were […]
Best SA wine shops? On land, online, anywhere in the country, the world?
WHO ARE the best of the specialists when it comes to SA wine retailers? See above or below for the prime candidates in South Africa, but have we left out […]
Fine Wine is about the level of quality and interest value, but what else?
A FEW DECADES ago, wine lovers looking for recommendations as to which South African reds, whites or sweets were a cut above the rest might have relied on certification that […]
Strauss & Co fine wine auction both confirming and confounding
FOR THE MOST PART, the results of Strauss & Co’s ‘Rhône-themed’ fine wine online auction conducted in collaboration with the merchants Wine Cellar and sommelier Higgo Jacobs from 6 to […]
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 […]
