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’m plunged in the middle of the Platter wine-tasting season. For a month or so, a lot of varied vinous expressions of alcohol have been flowing over my tastebuds, which...
Telos 2015 – R4 200 a bottle – from Tokara in Stellenbosch. Vanity project? Another well-meaning but half-baked effort to elevate the reputation, and in conjunction, the price of South African...
A while back I reported on the depressingly small volume of “serious” – indeed, basically dry – wines drunk in this country, as opposed to the likes of 4th Street...
Newton Johnson in Upper Hemel en Aarde, Full Stop Rock selling for around R180 a bottle the understudy to Granum which sells for R345 or so. The 2017 vintage of...
There’s more Shiraz in the 2016 vintage of A.A. Badenhorst Red than usual – 71% compared to 52% in the case of 2015 and 56% in 2014 – the rest...
Winemag.co.za is pleased to announce the inaugural Shiraz Report. Wines will be tasted blind by a three-person panel consisting of Christian Eedes as chairman as well as Roland Peens and...
The TOPS at SPAR Wine Show – Port Elizabeth takes place from 25 to 27July at The Boardwalk. Taste, buy and attend wine theatres to learn more. Some of the...
Lizelle Gerber is joining Nederburg Wines in Paarl as its new head winemaker from 1 August. Nederburg is part of the newly-formed Libertas Vineyards and Estates, Distell’s independent premium and...
The red blend that is Dr Charles Niehaus from KWV is positioned as a kind of “super Roodeberg”, a signature blend made as a tribute to Roodeberg’s founder, Niehaus being...
There was a nice bit of humorous irony, I think, when Vincent Bührer of Saxenburg wrote to me that he’d be “delighted to refresh [my] memory on the Saxenburg Shiraz”....
Let’s talk about Cape Town restaurant prices; more specifically the price of posh restaurant food. Is it as bad as you think? Right now, Between Us in Bree Street has...
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...
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...
Results of the Best Value Shiraz Tasting aimed at finding the best examples of this variety costing between R60 and R120 a bottle are now out The top five wines...
