SA Bubblies of the Year! South Africa’s Most Highly Rated in 2021
SOME AWARDS carry more weight than others, and there’s something to be said for a wine that ticks the boxes for a number of top tasting panels. Over 1500 South […]
Koelenhof Legacy is Red Wine of the Year at SA National Wine Challenge
THERE WERE A NUMBER of familiar labels among the ‘Best in Class’ and ‘Wine of the Year’ laureates that shone in the 2021 SA National Wine Challenge, but nobody could […]
South Africa’s most-raved-about wines in 2020 – every one a champion
THESE ARE the South African wines most highly rated in 2020, contenders for the title of SA Wine of the Year! Or should that be Winery of the Year, or […]
None of Platter’s 28 ‘Wines of the Year’ from their ‘Winery of the Year’?
IN THE 2021 edition of Platter’s South African Wine Guide, the number of 5 Star laureates runs to 210 – in the 2020 edition there were 125, a year before […]
Diemersfontein’s NWC Red Wine of the Year a team effort that’s paid off
PINOTAGE is the red that they are best known for, although there’s also a Malbec in the Diemersfontein Carpe Diem Reserve range of “world-class, innovative wines” from David Sonnenberg’s estate […]
Wine in a million! Pilgrimage Semillon from vines well over 100 years old
FROM A SMALL block of seriously old, gnarled and twisted Semillon bush vines planted in the Franschhoek valley circa 1905, grapes for The Pilgrimage Semillon are in very short supply. […]
The Most Raved-About South African Wines in 2019 – Top Two Dozen
[metaslider id=”27246″] CONTENDERS for the title of SA Wine of the Year? Winery of the Year? Winemaker of the Year? Clearly some awards and ratings count more than others. […]
