Veritas Awards revisited… The scores of all the double golds
WELL, 99% of them… A few of the wine producers who entered the 2025 Veritas Awards and went on to win double gold either didn’t respond to queries about their […]
Perold wins at Veritas ’25… But what was it up against?
NO MEAN FEAT! The most highly rated of over 1200 entries in the 2025 edition of the longest-running and biggest South African wine and spirit competition… The 2022 vintage of […]
The humble Duke of Wellington a Top 10 Pinotage at R80pb
IT’S SURPRISING to find neither Kanonkop nor Rijk’s among the winners of an Absa Top 10 – such are their good track records in this competition held by the Pinotage […]
Laborie Blanc de Blancs 2019 surely MCC value champion 2025
THE privately-owned Laborie Estate is down the road from Warshay Investment’s KWV Emporium – both in Paarl, both Cape wineland destinations in their own right, both home to one of […]
Definition of a ‘Cape Blend’ still far from set in stone
HOW WAS THAT! A panel tasting report published in the UK’s Decanter magazine focusing on South Africa’s ‘Cape red blends’ that include Pinotage in the mix makes no mention of […]
Cilmor of Worcester THE discovery at Trophy Wine Show
OF THE 650 wines judged at South Africa’s 2025 Trophy Wine Show, 40 were scored 95+ to earn gold medals (see below), and of those, 23 went on to earn […]
And then there were more seriously good wines at < R150
5 STARS in Platter’s 2025 SA Wine Guide, from one of the country’s top winemakers in Donovan Rall, using grapes grown on the mountains in the back of beyond, priced […]
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, […]
