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 6 at Perold Cape Blend awards include five newcomers
WHO CAN remember when last The Mentors Perold from KWV of Paarl wasn’t included among the finalists of South Africa’s Perold Cape Blend Competition! A simple explanation is that having […]
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 […]
Stellenbosch prevails at Global Chenin Blanc Masters, UK
HOW ABOUT THAT!! While the good people at Spier in Stellenbosch were introducing Farmer Angus, the new flagship range among their organic wine offerings, another of their organic-certified wines was […]
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 […]
Top Chenin Blanc SA over past six months to date – June 2023
AS THE 2023 Chenin Safari was winding down, with the final leg of the six-week challenge just around the bend, who would be strutting their stuff at the festival in […]
South Africa’s most highly rated Cabernet Sauvignon in 2022
‘EXTRAORDINARY. Profound.’ That’s what the Winemag judges thought of Koelenhof Winery’s ‘Stellenbosch 1679′ Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 when reviewing it for the 2022 Prescient Report. The only wine among the 64 […]
Just R60pb! Koelenhof and Van Loveren win Value Challenge
ALTHOUGH the 2022 Ultra Value Wine Challenge was open to entries selling for up to R130 a bottle, the Wine of the Year awards for the highest-scoring red and white […]
Ken Forrester Chenin Best in Show at World Wine Awards 2022
THE DECANTER World Wine Awards in the UK are mega. 18 244 entries in 2022, a world record as international wine competitions go. Judged over two weeks, with the various […]
Stellenbosch winelands checklist 2022: where to go, what to go for
THE NUMBERS go some way to painting the picture! Fifteen of South Africa’s Top 20 Cabs are from Stellenbosch. Cabernet Sauvignon, that is. Ten of the country’s Top 20 […]
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 […]
Concours Mondial judges fancy Pinotage – especially in a blend
10 000 WINES from 46 countries, more than 300 judges on the panels tasting ‘blind’, labels out of sight, nine days of deliberation… Belgium’s international Concours Mondial du Bruxelles is […]
