WO Swartland & Ceres triumph in Winemag’s Shiraz Report
HOW ABOUT THAT! Two wins in succession for the Riebeek Valley Wine Co in the SA Winemag’s annual Prescient Shiraz Report, with the Riebeek-Kasteel winery’s RAAR Shiraz Carbonic Maceration 2024 […]
Boekenhoutskloof Syrah and Sadie Columella star on auction
AT THE timed, online Rhône Theme wine auction conducted by Strauss & Co on 10 February 2025, somebody paid over R8000 for a bottle of 1997 Syrah from Boekenhoutskloof in […]
A rather rare, very unusual wine… Klein Amoskuil’s Fino Sherry
AT THE TIME of writing, the bone-dry Fino-style sherry from the farm Klein Amoskuil in the Malmesbury ward of the Swartland district was the only wine of it’s kind on […]
Stofjas! Who saw this coming from the Swartland winelands?
SHENK or SKENK… However you choose to pronounce it, the Schenkfontein cellar in Eendekuil – 30km outside Piketberg off the N7, about a two-hour drive from Cape Town – is […]
Another winner from the Riebeek Valley: RAAR Shiraz 2023
‘RAAR’ translates as ‘rare’ or ‘scarce’ and, as such, is regarded by the Riebeek Valley Wine Company as a fitting name for their range of small-volume, hand-crafted reds and whites […]
Sadie Family Columella 2015 goes for R5472pb on auction
THE Sadie Family of the Paardeberg outside Malmesbury in the Swartland dominated proceedings in terms of the highest prices paid for South African wines at the first Strauss & Co […]
5 scored 98 in Platter’s guide: 3 Chenins, 1 Pinotage, 1 Shiraz
THERE are SIX producers in various parts of the Cape winelands who are most applauded in the 2024 edition of Platter’s South African Wine Guide. Congratulations to The Sadie Family […]
These are THE top SA wine events in November and December 2023
NOVEMBER 2023 1 NOVEMBER Caroline’s White Wine Review | Cape Town 1 NOVEMBER Veritas Tasting | Johannesburg 4 NOVEMBER Cap Classique Affair | Stellenbosch 4 & 5 NOVEMBER Pick n Pay […]
Sadie Family and Alheit dominate the bidding once again
HIGHLIGHTS of the Chenin & Pinotage online sale by South African auction house Strauss & Co on 11 September ’23 – wines that fetched over R2000 a bottle on the day: […]
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 […]
A rather rare, very unusual wine… Kloovenburg Lledoner Pelut
ASSOCIATED with the Catalonia region surrounding the city of Barcelona in northeastern Spain as well as the Languedoc in southern France, the black grape variety Lledoner Pelut (aka Garnacha) is […]
A rather rare, very unusual wine… AA Badenhorst Palomino
SOME WINES are pretty much ‘one of a kind’, almost incomparable. Some of them from the Cape winelands. This one the ‘Salt of the Earth’. In South Africa, Palomino grapes […]
