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Recently KWV’s two top-end examples of Shiraz, The Mentors 2011 (R195 a bottle) and Abraham Perold Insignis 2011 (R600 a bottle). Drinking them side by...
Slick in the best way: 65% Paarl, 35% Swartland grapes. Various forms of vinfication – some spontaneous fermentation and some inoculated, some barrel maturation and...
Plenty of attention being attracted by KWV’s top-end The Mentors range but what of the big-volume Roodeberg which retails for around R60 a bottle? The...
Ignore the pretentious name and the grandiose packaging, the Abraham Perold Tributum 2010 is a superlative wine. Not submitted for review in Platter’s 2013, it...
KWV The Mentors Grenache Blanc 2010, 5 Stars in Platter’s 2012 and one of my top 12 wines of last year, really is outstanding as...
That KWV should be considered among the very best producers in the country would have strained credibility not so long ago but the quality of...
There are many reasons to opt for tap water over bottled mineral water when dining out locally: the quality is of a high standard, there’s...
A tasting of ten examples of Viognier, the line-up including wines that have come to the fore in one context or another as among the...
Yesterday a visit to The Mentors cellar at KWV in Paarl, a facility fulfilling the dual purposes of top-end quality as well as research and...
As featured in the last issue of Business Day WANTED: In the mid-1990s, KWV went from South Africa’s super co-operative to just another big wine...
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