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Sensational Sauvignon, but can you tell where it’s from?

02/2013 Mike Froud Leave a comment

WHAT APPEALS most about the Graham Beck Pheasants’ Run is how it affects the senses. Kinda obvious, right?! Over the past 10 years this has become one of South Africa’s Sauvignon Blanc benchmarks, one of the three most consistent top performers in this category together with Steenberg Reserve and Cederberg – no fewer than eight highly rated vintages in succession, including the 2012 released a few

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Top Flagstone blend pretty much only available ex-cellar

10/2012 Mike Froud 2 comments

THE TASTING ROOM in a corner of the Flagstone winery is located in a tacky semi-industrial precinct between Somerset West and (the) Strand, but the people behind the clunky metal door to the ‘factory’ are nice, knowledgeable about wine and serving some lovely stuff with some of the coolest labels in the Cape. Many Flagstone followers are fans because of a