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Reyneke new releases

25 July 2025

Barbara Melck, winemaker at Reyneke in Stellenbosch since the 2022 harvest, caused a stir at this year’s iTOO Next Generation Awards when her Sauvignon Blanc 2024 was judged best wine...

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Dr Justus Apffelstaedt: Moderation misunderstood – the case for smarter wine health messaging

24 July 2025

Science without connection to real life is a meaningless ivory tower activity. Ideally, science improves real people’s lives. For example, the mortality of breast cancer roughly halves every ten years....

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Building on a decade of design leadership in SA wine

23 July 2025

After 10 years of valued partnership, self-adhesive label supplier Rotolabel has concluded its sponsorship of the Wine Label Design Awards. We thank them sincerely for their role in championing the...

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Beaumont New Baby 2023

23 July 2025

Sebastian Beaumont of Beaumont Family Wines in Bot River describes New Baby as a “no-rules white blend from our three oldest white vineyards.” The newly released 2023 (R495 a bottle)...

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Saurwein new releases

22 July 2025

Jessica Saurwein launched her own label in 2015, making Riesling and Pinot Noir. In 2021, the project found a permanent home when she and her family moved to Waterval farm...

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3 June 2022

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Prescient Fund Services Sauvignon Blanc Report 2025: Call for entries

24 June 2025

Entries for this year’s Sauvignon Blanc Report sponsored by financial institution Prescient Fund Services are now open, sub-categories including 1) Sauvignon Blanc and 2) Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon Blends. Winemag.co.za will be...

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Prescient Fund Services Cape Bordeaux Red Blend Report 2025: Call for entries

24 June 2025

Entries for this year’s Cape Bordeaux Red Blend Report sponsored by financial institution Prescient Fund Services are now open. Winemag.co.za will be generating a number of category reports throughout the...

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Lowerland new releases

21 July 2025

Lowerland is the Coetzee family farm on the banks of the Orange River near Prieska in the Northern Cape. Spanning 12,000ha, it is primarily dedicated to pasture and grain, but...

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Matthew Copeland to leave Vondeling

2 July 2025

Matthew Copeland, winemaker at Vondeling in the Voor-Paardeberg since mid-2007, is set to move on. Among his many achievements, he helped draft legislation to determine the Méthode Ancestrale category and...

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Top wines of June 2025

1 July 2025

Here are our 19 most highly rate wines of last month:   Alheit Vineyards Fire by Night Chenin Blanc 2024 – 98 (read original review here) Rall Red 2023 –...

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Michael Fridjhon: Wine’s downturn and our slim chance to save it

23 July 2025

Christian Eedes’s editorial entitled “SA’s wine quality gap widens” published earlier this month highlighted the key elements of what I think is an impending and massive crisis affecting the Cape...

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Tim James: On boring wine writers and being priced out of the market

22 July 2025

A vicious cold thwarted my plans of getting out at the crack of dawn on Monday to the Sadie new releses trade tasting in order to dutifully report back to...

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Editorial: The Swartland Revolution – honouring the past, looking ahead

22 July 2025

Earlier this year, I asked a simple question: Can we still, in good faith, call the Swartland Revolution a revolution? It landed harder than expected. Some dismissed it as sour...

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Recipe: Lamb meatballs with feta, olives & tomato dip

1 July 2025

Perfect for casual entertaining. Lamb meatball recipe ingredients For the lamb meatballs 500g lamb mince 1½ rounds feta, crumbled 15g parsley, finely chopped 15g mint, finely chopped 4 spring onions,...
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Prescient Fund Services Pinotage Report 2025: Top Six

1 July 2025

Introduction This year’s Pinotage Report sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient is now out. There were 48 entries received from 32 producers and these were tasted blind (labels out...

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Prescient Fund Services Signature Red Blend Report 2025: Top 10

1 July 2025

Introduction This year’s Signature Red Blend Report convened by Winemag.co.za and sponsored by financial services company Prescient Fund Services is now out. There were 48 entries from 32 producers and...

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iTOO Next Generation Awards 2025: Top 10

23 June 2025

Introduction Results of the this year's Next Generation Awards sponsored by special risks insurance brand iTOO and convened by Winemag.co.za are live. The aim of this new competition is to...

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