Whitehall |

Tag Archives: Whitehall

Whitehall Chardonnay has aficionados smiling internationally

06/2022 Mike Froud Leave a comment

THE 2020 VINTAGE of Neil Ellis’s Whitehall Chardonnay had only been on the market for a few months when it was included among the Top 4 in Winemag‘s 2021 South African Chardonnay Report. By the end of the year it had been Highly Recommended in Platter‘s SA Wine Guide, and after some more time in bottle it was considered 95+ on

2022
Decanter World Wine Awards
International Wine Challenge
Platter's South African Wine Guide
SA Wine Ratings
Uncategorized
Winemag.co.za

IWC judges prefer top SA Pinot Noir to top SA Cab, Shiraz…

05/2022 Mike Froud Leave a comment

THE PRICE of over R1000 a bottle puts Bouchard Finlayson’s flagship Pinot Noir from the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley into the realm of South Africa’s luxury wines, although for less than half that you can get the same vintage of their Galpin Peak. In fact it wasn’t that long ago that the “cameo selection” Tête de Cuvée also carried the name Galpin