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The Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show is South Africa’s premier wine competition that recognises the top local wines and winemakers, and honours excellence in the wine industry.
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Cool Climate Walker Bay
May 06, 2013
Cool climate viticulture has been an increasingly important feature of the Cape wine scene ever since Tim Hamilton Russell used it in the late 1970s as the motivation for siting his eponymous vineyard venture in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley near Hermanus. Now, with global warming front-of-mind when planning the use of agricultural land, what appeared forty years ago to have been a marketing strategy by a clever advertising man-turned-winefamer has become…Continue Reading
Congratulations Jill Rumbelow
May 02, 2013
A hearty congratulations to Jill Rumbelow. You are our lucky winner of the Grande Roche competition.
You and your partner will be given VIP treatment next week as you attend a dinner with the judging panel and other VIP guests at the spectacular Grande Roche Hotel in Paarl.
Your prize consists of the following:
Luxury accommodation on the night of Wednesday May 8, at the Grande Roche Hotel, one of South Africa’s leading…Continue Reading
BD Shiraz
February 05, 2013 There is something slightly artificial about a structured wine tasting - where carefully selected samples are lined up to reveal some vinous truth. Wines are made to be enjoyed, usually with food. They were never intended to be treated like lab samples. Most formal tastings are comparative exercises and the information that emerges is often formulated in comparative terms. “This wine has better fruit than the previous sample,” is a…Continue Reading
Sauvignon Blanc vs Chardonnay
January 29, 2013 Sauvignon Blanc usurped Chardonnay as the white variety of choice for premium wine drinkers in South Africa some twenty years ago. At the time, growers were caught wrong-footed. Chardonnay's international pre-eminence was only just being challenged, and criticism – such as it was – seemed to emanate more from wine writers bored by the oak, than consumers, who were still drinking it in bucket-loads. For much of the next ten years…Continue Reading
La Motte retains title as Great Wine Capitals winner
November 15, 2012
For the second year in succession, historic wine estate, La Motte of Franschhoek is South Africa’s Best of Wine Tourism champion.
The 2013 winner of the annual competition run by the Great Wine Capitals (GWC) once again came out narrowly ahead of Waterkloof Estate, Helderberg’s biodynamic winery situated on the slopes of the Schapenberg.
The GWC, a network of the world’s leading wine-producing countries that shares international best practice to advance standards…Continue Reading
New Fairtrade project for Origin Wine
November 15, 2012
Following the tremendous success of the Fairhills Fairtrade project, Origin Wine, one of the leading exporters and social pioneers from South Africa, is pleased to announce the launch of a new project with Brandvlei Cooperative in the Breede River Valley.
As Bernard Fontannaz, who founded Fairhills in 2004,explained: "After the overwhelming success of our first Fairtrade project, which started the upliftment and the social development process for an entire community of…Continue Reading
BD Origin & Five Nations
November 15, 2012
A sense of place – the frequently affirmed ideal of so many winemakers - is remarkably fragile. Excess of any kind (except perhaps the zeal in respecting it) will almost always obliterate its lineaments. The Old World injunction against irrigation (intended to prevent flavour and quality dilution through excessive water uptake by the vine) serves to preserve a single element in the complex process by which the origin of the…Continue Reading
World Wine Output to Fall to 37-Year Low, Depleting Stocks
November 15, 2012
Global wine production will slump to the lowest in 37 years after weather damage to grapes from France to Argentina, forcing a draw down of stocks, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine said.
Output may fall to about 248.2 million hectoliters (6.56 billion gallons) this year from 264.2 million hectoliters in 2011, according to the group, known as OIV. That would be the lowest since at least 1975, Federico Castellucci,…Continue Reading
