Everything to do with South African fine wine. Wine magazine was published from October 1993 until September 2011 and now lives on in digital form as winemag.co.za
I There’s something particularly lovely about a curving vineyard, gently adapting itself to a hillside. They must be rare, given the exigencies of the trellising and mechanisation that dominates modern...
Earlier this week, Twitter user @sawinereviews commented “So many tastings, so many competitions, so many scores… the whole thing is becoming so diluted & mundane, there is no reliable single...
Grower-owned company Stellenbosch Hills have upped the ante with two new top-end wines under the collective name of Sense of Place, these being a wooded Chenin Blanc called Kastanjeberg 2017 and...
In what has become an annual event, the Pinotage Association facilitates a blind tasting of the best 20 wines overall in the Absa Top 10 Pinotage competition prior to the...
Tim James recently highlighted the phenomenon of multiple winemakers using the same cellar (see here), and Hemelrand outside Hermanus is a case in point, home as it is to both...
Winemag.co.za is pleased to announce the third annual Pinot Noir Report sponsored by Tonnellerie Saint Martin. Wines will be tasted blind by a three-person panel consisting of Christian Eedes as...
Our Best Value Tastings programme – aimed at finding the best wines costing between R60 and R120 a bottle – is about to wrap up for the year. Our intention...
Results of the 23rd annual Absa Top 10 Pinotage competition have just been announced, the winners as follows: Anura Reserve 2016 Badsberg 2018 Beyerskloof Winemaker’s Reserve 2017 Diemersdal Reserve 2018...
Results of the inaugural Old Mutual Trophy Spirits Show were announced yesterday. Total entries amounted to over 200 products, the judging panel consisting of David Boyd (former head of the...
Tasting for the annual Platter’s guide has reached a crescendo over the past few weeks, impacting on my free hours to poke around the archives for very early wine industry...
When, in the bad old days—oh, a decade and more back—the printed Wine Magazine had a focus on a woman winemaker it would invariably, as I recall, foreground photographs of...
There’s one very good reason for trying SŸN at 47, Cape Town’s new laboratory-inspired, pop-up restaurant. It’s called Holy Smoke. Served as the bread course, what arrives at the table...
The fourth annual Signature Red Blend Report, featuring wines distinctive of their originators, is now out. 58 entries were received from 42 producers for this year’s competition. These were tasted...
Results of the Best Value Chenin Blanc Tasting aimed at finding the best examples of this variety costing between R60 and R120 a bottle are now out. The top five...
The fifth annual Cape Bordeaux Red Blend Report is now out. 65 entries were received from 53 producers for this year’s competition and these were tasted blind (labels out of...
