Top SA wines over the past 10 years – 2025 Classification
THERE ARE wines that impress occasionally with this and that vintage, then there are those that please on a fairly regular basis, and then there are those wines that make […]
Wine Concepts invitation to a Chardonnay & Pinot Celebration
Wine Concepts proudly presents their 12th annual exclusive Chardonnay & Pinot Noir Celebration taking place at Moyo Restaurant in Kirstenbosch on Thursday 17th October from 6pm to 9pm. Guests will […]
Taste the very finest at Caroline’s White Wine Review
Caroline’s 2024 edition of her annual White Wine & Cap Classique Review, hailed as one of the most prestigious tasting events on the South African wine calendar, will be […]
Taste the very finest at Caroline’s Red Wine Review
Caroline’s 2024 edition of her annual Red Wine Review, hailed as one of the most prestigious tasting events on the South African wine calendar, will be staged on Thursday 25 […]
Wine festivals aplenty in March 2024… Too many perhaps?
CHOICES CHOICES CHOICES… Tickets for ‘Wine on the Water’ in St Francis Bay are very hard to come by and those to the Stellenbosch Street Soirees are selling out fast. […]
Awesome lineup of top wine events in South Africa – Aug 2023
♥ The top SA wine events scheduled to take place this month, August 2023. Just click on the links for more info, directions, tickets, etc. WINE TASTINGS OF NOTE 1 […]
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 […]
Constantia has lovely Sauvignon, but a whole lot more besides
ALMOST EVERYBODY who’s anybody in the vineyards of Constantia was on the billboard of exhibitors expected to be serving their Sauvignon to wine lovers at Workshop 47 in Rosebank JHB […]
PnP Wine & Food Festivals should be fun – weather permitting
THE WEATHERMAN promised sunshine on Sunday 30 April in Cape Town, but would-be picnickers were warned that it could be cloudy on Saturday the 29th, the first day of the […]
Michelangelo wine tastings not what you might expect, but…
THE MICHELANGELO wine tastings at Southern Sun’s Rosebank Hotel (JHB) and Garden Court uMhlanga (DBN) in April/May are appealing. Although the timing is rather unusual… Now into its 27th year […]
Wines that aren’t rated ‘blind’ cannot rank among the best
OF COURSE wine ratings matter! Reviews by panels of experts, that is, i.e. if you want to gauge just how good a wine is. We’re talking about assessments of what’s […]
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 […]