2022 Lothian Chardonnay the latest in an Elgin success story
THE TROPHY winner, the best white wine from South Africa at the 2024 International Wine Challenge in London, UK – one of the biggest, one of the most prestigious wine […]
Overberg wine top-scores in South African Chardonnay Report
NOT MANY wine producers have access to vineyards in the Elandskloof valley of the Overberg district, Western Cape. Anthonij Rupert Wyne of Franschhoek is one of them, and the Chardonnay […]
“Brilliant” SA Chardonnay performance at IWSC 2024 – UK
HE’S DONE IT again! Elgin winemaker Richard Kershaw MW was one of the four top-scoring South African producers at the 2024 International Wine & Spirit Competition in London – the […]
Some international wine trophies count more than others – UK
WITH MANY if not all wine competition organisers who honour overall champions at their shows, local and international, the choice has mostly to do with how many awards each producer […]
Kershaw GPS blend impresses again: 97 at IWSC, 95 in Winemag
JUNE 2022: Richard Kershaw’s GPS Series Cape South Coast Semillon Sauvignon Blanc 2020 is celebrated as one of the most highly rated wines at the International Wine & Spirit Competition […]
South Africa top at International Wine & Spirit Competition
SOUTH AFRICA came away from the 2022 International Wine & Spirit Competition (UK) with more gold medals than any other country, including France. Of the thousands of wines entered, nearly […]
2022 Elgin winelands checklist: where to go, what to go for
HARD TO BELIEVE that 20 years ago this wine route was still struggling to get off the ground, so to speak. Whereas today, not only is Elgin home to some […]
Feeling of déjà vu about latest competition involving ‘heartbreak grape’
THE SECOND annual Mosaic Top 5 Pinot Noir Wine Awards were contested by 42 producers who submitted 64 entries from various areas in South Africa, primarily from the Walker […]
IWC panels loved SA Chardonnay, Chenin, Pinot… Cab, Shiraz less so
FRANCE and Australia were the most successful nations at the 2021 International Wine Challenge in London, one of the biggest competitions of its kind – thousands of entries from over […]
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 […]
Mosaic Top 5 panel chuffed with best SA Pinot Noir, but hardly ecstatic
ANOTHER interesting line-up of wines from that ‘heartbreak grape’. To think that there are so many Pinot Noir producers in South Africa! And kudos to Elgin-based Master of Wine Richard […]
Bold expression of Elgin Pinot Noir the latest in string of good vintages
TAKE IN THE VIEW of Lothian Vineyards and you may well think you’re somewhere other than Elgin. The hills and mountains around the edge of the ‘basin’ are a […]