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Still a while to wait for the Cab Franc Challenge winner

04/2024 Mike Froud Leave a comment

THERE ISN’T much of South Africa’s 2024 Cab Franc Challenge winner, and at the time of writing – after the results went public, a week after the awards presentation – the bottles had yet to be labelled, let alone released onto the market! Hopefully the 2021 vintage of Mitre’s Edge Cabernet Franc WO Simonsberg-Paarl will be available in time for

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Tough call as Cab Franc Challenge trophy goes to Anthology

04/2023 Mike Froud 2 comments

THERE WERE only 20 cases of the single-block, single-barrel Cab Franc Challenge winner made available for purchase after results of the 2023 edition of the competition were announced in Stellenbosch. As for the rest of the Anthology, 2020 vintage, “we’ll be drinking to celebrate,” said the producers. “Lucky us.” Convenor Bjorn van Oort let on that “just 0.33 points” separated