Top scores at Veritas revealed! Eight wineries awarded 95+
THE DOUBLE GOLD winners at the 2024 Veritas Awards have disclosed what the competition organisers will not… Apart from presenting the Vertex trophy for the most highly rated of the […]
2024 Veritas champion a leading ambassador for Cape Blends
OVER THE YEARS, it’s been one of South Africa’s most highly rated blended red wines – not only according to experts at the Veritas Awards but also those at the […]
Record price fetched for Vin de Constance… once again!
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a year makes! Or doesn’t… Apparently some of those bidding during the timed online auction of sweet wines that concluded on 10 June ’24 regarded the 38-year-old […]
Trophy Wine Show of interest to both layman and connoisseur
KWV, Paarl. SCHENKFONTEIN! Where’s that? Stofjas! What’s that? Thor Semillon nothing to do with the Marvel fantasy! Port Capital comes second? Best value gold medallist a Shiraz at just R115 […]
Six particularly good value wines at under R150 a bottle
THERE ARE very few SA wines selling for Under R150pb being showcased on Top Wine SA as of May ’24. Which says a couple of things: that prices are climbing, […]
Best of The Best Under R250pb – 2024 SA Wine Classification
LESS THAN R100 a bottle for one of the most consistently highly rated wines over the past 10 years might seem impossible, and yet… While the majority of the 132 […]
Most highly rated Cap Classique sparkling wines in 2023
THE TOP sparklers from South Africa are applauded around the world, not just locally. Some of them are now commanding prices in line with Champagne, although most still present better […]
What does it mean to win double gold at the Veritas Awards?
TO WIN the trophy for top-scoring wine at the Veritas Awards is a fairly big deal! In 2023, there were 1247 entries (including spirits) in what is the biggest, longest-running […]
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 […]
Six Cape Blend winners in a category that’s limping along
HOW MUCH longer will it take for the concept of a ‘Cape Blend’ to gain traction, one wonders. Some are really good, yet more than a decade after South Africa’s […]
Under R150 and Classified – great value wine year after year
MANY STOPPED paying attention to the Michelangelo Awards when it was pointed out that, like the South African Young Wine Show, the entries include tank- and barrel-samples, i.e. wines that […]
Talk about a show of dominance at the Chenin Blanc Challenge
THEY MAKE at least half a dozen Chenins at the Stellenrust winery in the Helderberg and another at their boutique ArtiSons cellar in Bottelary. Even the ‘standard’ version (currently R89pb) […]