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Lubanzi Orange Is 2022

7 December 2023

Lubanzi is a wine company founded by Charlie Brain and Walker Brown, who arrived in South Africa in 2014 as exchange students from the USA and were so enamoured with...

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Journey’s End revisited

6 December 2023

Journey’s End situated just outside Somerset West has enjoyed a good run in our various category reports sponsored by Prescient this year: Ad Infinitum 2022 placed Top 6 with a...

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Prescient Rosé Report 2023

6 December 2023

Introduction This year’s Rosé Report convened by Winemag.co.za and sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient is now out. There were 58 entries from 53 producers and these were tasted...

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Mount Sutherland Ouberg Syrah 2018

6 December 2023

The Super Single Vineyards team contend that if the usual bottling of Mount Sutherland Syrah leans more to a Côte Blonde style, which is to say a wine of finesse...

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Taaibosch Crescendo 2020

5 December 2023

Crescendo from Taaibosch in Stellenbosch is rapidly shaping as a super-reliable mid-tier example of a Cape Bordeaux red blend. The newly released 2020 comes to market at R415 a bottle...

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Global Fine Wine Challenge 2023 results

4 December 2023

Results of this year’s Global Fine Wine Challenge between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA have been announced. There are selectors from each participating country, with Michael...

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Meerendal new releases

1 December 2023

Wade Roger-Lund, previously of Jordan, became winemaker and general manager at Durbanville property Meerendal during the middle of last year and his first wines are starting to reach the market....

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Top wines of November 2023

1 December 2023

Here are our seven most highly rated wines of last month: Testalonga Cortez Chenin Blanc  2023 – 98/100 (read original review here) Kanonkop Black Label Pinotage   2021 – 97/100 (read...

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Poll: The top 20 South African wineries

28 November 2023

Here is the latest list of South Africa’s top 20 wineries as voted for by a panel of 25 wine professionals: Sadie Family Wines Alheit Mullineux Kanonkop Savage 6.= Boekenhoutskloof...

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Opinion & Analysis

Jamie Goode: Vines and the science of drought resistance

5 December 2023

One of the big challenges hitting wine regions in many parts of the world is drought. And the Western Cape knows all about this after the run of very dry...

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Tim James: A Revisioning of Solms-Delta

4 December 2023

It has to be said that, while many observers at home and abroad were greatly upset by the collapse (pretty definitive a half-decade back) of the grand social scheme at...

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Eat Out Woolworths Restaurant Awards 2023

20 November 2023

This year’s Eat Out Woolworths Restaurant Awards were announced last night. Using the star-rating system introduced in 2022, the winners were as follows: 1-Star Restaurants Acid Food & Wine Bar...
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Label Design Awards 2023: Results

15 November 2023

Results of this year’s Label Design Awards for Wine, Beer and Spirits proudly sponsored by self-adhesive label supplier Rotolabel, with Avery Dennison, Kemtek|HP Indigo and Synchron in a secondary capacity...

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Prescient Best Wines South Africa 2023

27 October 2023

Introduction Winemag.co.za reviewed a total of 677 wines across 12 categories in its various reports sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient over the course of the year. Each report...

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Prescient Cabernet Sauvignon Report 2023: Top 10

27 October 2023

Introduction This year’s Cabernet Sauvignon Report sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient is now out. There were 66 entries received from 50 producers and these were tasted blind (labels...

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