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. […]
Go Wellington – wine route revival prompts closer inspection
ODDLY ENOUGH, not all of the cellars in Wellington are members of the local wine route. Not officially, that is. For example, Mischa Estate to the north and Napier Vineyards […]
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 […]
Top Pinotage and Cape Blends revisited – up close and personal
THE 2023 Absa Top 10 Pinotage and Perold Cape Blend awards have been reported on already, but for many wine lovers it’s not enough to know what the winning wines […]
A rather rare, very unusual wine… Bosman Family Vineyards Nero
SOME WINES are pretty much ‘one of a kind’, almost incomparable. Some of them from the Cape winelands… Nero is the first and only South African wine to be made […]
Global Malbec Masters include Bloedklip beauty from Doolhof
IT’S NOT a variety that the Cape is famous for, and yet! Of the 118 wines from 17 countries entered in the 2022 Drinks Business Global Malbec Masters held in […]
Limited Release Groote Post joins select group of SA Rosés
AS THE 2022 WINNER of the only competition in South Africa exclusively for Rosé wines, Groote Post is one of the country’s ‘pink’ wines of the year: • Aaldering Pinotage […]
Winemaker couldn’t have wished for more perfect start for own label
TOP 10 IN the 2021 Winemag Pinotage Report (SA), gold medallist at the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards (UK) and trophy laureate in the Pinotage Association’s 2021 Absa Top 10 […]
Painted Wolf Chenin offering what very few others do at R85 a bottle
WHILE DEDICATED to the conservation of the highly-endangered African wild dogs and their natural habitat, Painted Wolf Wines are so much more than the plethora of bottlings adorned with various forms […]
Wildeberg, Franschhoek… A place from where great things flow
BOTH OF the top-scoring wines in Winemag’s 2021 Cape White Blend Report were from the Wildeberg outfit in Franschhoek. A pretty impressive showing by Cellarmaster JD Rossouw and the team, […]
More than ‘braai wine’, Bonfire Hill thanks to a rescue mission of sorts
FOR JUST R69 a bottle you can get a delicious blend of Chenin and Roussanne from Wellington, Grenache Blanc from the Breedekloof and Viognier from Robertson – a mix that […]
Cavalli Filly gallops to first place in Winemag Chenin Blanc Report
IT’S NOT OFTEN that the Winemag panel chaired by editor Christian Eedes rates anything higher than 95 on their 100-point scale, but do so they did after sniffing and sipping […]
