Best value Trophy Wine Show winners – under R200 a bottle!
SOME OF the trophy and gold medal laureates at the 2026 Investec Trophy Wine Show will set you back over R500 a bottle – three times that for the most […]
Call to enter the Investec Trophy Wine & Trophy Spirits Shows
Enter the 2026 Investec Trophy Wine Show and Investec Trophy Spirits Show competitions now! This year the Trophy Wine Show celebrates its 25th edition. Each year, in the quarter century […]
Genetics… Stellenzicht’s 2023 Syrah has a lot going for it
JUDGED ‘Best Red Wine Overall’ at the 2025 edition of South Africa’s premier wine competition, the Trophy Wine Show: the 2023 vintage of the Arenite Syrah from Hans von Staff-Reitzenstein’s […]
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 […]
Stellenbosch Cab prevails again on the international stage
THE ANNUAL Decanter World Wine Awards: the biggest wine competition on the planet, held in London. In 2025, well over 16 000 entries from 57 countries evaluated by 248 judges […]
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 […]
Swartland comes to Cape Town, Stellenbosch Wine Festival…
THE TOP South African wine events taking place from July through August 2023 begin with a focus on Portuguese varieties and styles in Stellenbosch and wind up to the Cape […]
SA White Wines of the Year! South Africa’s Most Highly Rated in 2021
SOME AWARDS carry more weight than others, and there’s something to be said for a wine that ticks the boxes for a number of top tasting panels. Over 1500 South […]
Only two South African cellars at New York Wine Experience: KC and HRV
WHAT TO make of it?! Over 200 wineries exhibiting at the ‘Critics’ Choice Grand Tastings’ of Wine Spectator’s 2021 New York Wine Experience in October and Grand Tour of Las […]
South Africa’s wine shows and festivals no longer things of the past
BRING OUT the tasting glasses! Just days after turning a page on the calendar, word came down the grapevine that new wine festivals have been planned and that some of […]
Slowly returning to ‘normal’? Top SA wine events back on the calendar
CONSTANTIA Fresh dinners rather than a bash on the lawn. A Chenin Blanc picnic in Stellenbosch instead of a party on the beach in Cape Town. Then some belated tastings […]