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The Experts’ Absolute Favourites: South Africa’s Champion Wines of 2018

12/2018 Mike Froud One comment

THE TROPHY winners, Best Wines Overall, Top of the Class, Wines of the Year – as singled out by the top panels locally and internationally. These are the most successful vintages from the winelands of South Africa on the world stage in 2018 – presented first by wine type and variety, then alphabetically together with info about the accolades, the

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Very first Pinotage to go on sale had its roots at Bellevue back in 1953

06/2018 Mike Froud Leave a comment

1953 was ‘a big year’. Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Tibet became the first people to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on the planet. 1953 saw the crowning of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. And it was the year that one of South Africa’s first Pinotage vineyards was planted with a view to production on