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Weekend wine sales at winery tasting rooms still not on says government

SO UNTIL further notice, if you trip out along any of South Africa’s wonderful wine routes over the weekend, you can wine and dine to your heart’s content but you can’t buy any bottles to pack into the boot of your car… Which might well put you off! Following a period of prohibition for which the government came under a

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Best SA wine shops? On land, online, anywhere in the country, the world?

  WHO ARE the best of the specialists when it comes to SA wine retailers? See above or below for the prime candidates in South Africa, but have we left out anyone, any place? And, while we’re about it, where best to shop for South African wines anywhere else in the world?   Caroline’s Fine Wine Cellar Cape Town: CBD

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Who still reckons it pays to buy your wine direct from the farm?

A SURVEY of what top reds and whites are selling for at South Africa’s leading wine shops relative to cellar-door prices points to consistency in some areas and big discrepancies in others. Those who love to visit the wine routes might be disappointed to discover, if they aren’t already well aware, that what you pay on the farm is often

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Wine retailing in Cape Town just got a whole lot better

NORMAN GOODFELLOWS is unrivalled as a purveyor of top quality and good value wines in Johannesburg, Gauteng, and the opening of two stores in Cape Town is great news for residents and tourists on the doorstep to the winelands of the Western Cape. No doubt Caroline’s Fine Wine Cellar, Wine Concepts and others who specialise in retailing the liquid pleasures of

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