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On Friday, a visit to the Tabernacle, Distell’s underground wine library housing a 14 000-bottle collection of rare local and international wines. A small group...
Okay, so I missed the online launch of Red ESCape 2010 (R54 a bottle) on internet-based radio station Zone Radio this past Wednesday but I...
The rivalry that has sprung up between producer-wholesalers Distell and KWV in recent times has been fascinating to observe and in most cases the two...
Unsubstantiated rumours that Chateau Libertas is on the way out, with no new following in the emerging market segment prior or subsequent to its recent...
Chateau Libertas might be a “paragon of value and drinkability” according to Platter’s 2012 but the truth of the matter is that this 80-year-old Distell-owned...
Fascinating to read in the Sunday Times that according to research group Nielsen total advertising spend in South Africa jumped 11% to R32.1 billion in...
The Distell-owned processing facility Die Bergkelder in Stellenbosch processes between 17 000 and 18 000 tons of grapes a vintage. Pieter Badenhorst, winemaker responsible for...
[caption id="attachment_2946" align="alignleft" width="188"] ...and the new.[/caption] Chateau Libertas has been made uninterrupted since 1932 and has become one of South Africa's best loved wine...
If you believe in indy rock ‘n roll, then last year’s Wine magazine Cap Classique Challenge results must have really sucked: best Non-Vintage to evil...
Yesterday the launch of the Place in the Sun range of wines from producer-wholesaler Distell. Grapes are sourced from a Devon Valley farmer who is...