Decanter.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The results of two annual high profile auctions of South African wine reflect economic and political uncertainties.
PoppingCorks.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Best of the wine blogosphere for September 12th through September 29th: WBW #50 Announced: The Great Outdoors Pinotage Old and New: Tasting Notes and Thoughts from South Africa Some Thoughts on South African Wine Toss out your wine charms and try chalkboard glasses instead SFGate: Wine : The Chronicle Wine Selections: Napa Valley Spiffy new update with lots of great [...]
Winecast (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Best of the wine blogosphere for September 12th through September 29th: WBW #50 Announced: The Great Outdoors Pinotage Old and New: Tasting Notes and Thoughts from South Africa Some Thoughts on South African Wine Toss out your wine charms and try chalkboard glasses instead SFGate: Wine : The Chronicle Wine Selections: Napa Valley Spiffy new update with lots of great [...]
Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The South African wine industry is gearing up for the 2010 football World Cup.
Vinography (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Depending on your history as a wine lover, your individual tastes, and perhaps your nationalistic pride, a mention of the grape variety Pinotage either conjures up everything good about South African wine, or makes you want to skip wine for the night and order a beer. Before I came to South Africa I had managed to taste a couple of Pinotage wines, and the best that I had tasted was merely just decent...
Vinography (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
I've now been in South Africa for about three full days, and I've tasted, by rough estimation, about 300 or more South African wines, ranging from some of the most common, to some of the smallest production, most sought after wines in the country. I've got a ton of tasting notes and scores for all these wines that I'm working on, but in the meantime, I thought I'd ramble a bit about what I'm learning,...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
(((So, there's this well-known blogger dude, Hugh "Global Microbrand" MacLeod, and he's always going on about this South African wine. So, I figured, Hugh's a PR guy, so maybe the wine's lousy. Turns out it's for sale in a local...
Vinography (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa! I've come down to the Cape Winelands to dive deep into South African wine in a way that isn't possible in the United States. In most wine stores I'm lucky to find a handful of South African wines at most, and forget about restaurants, which often just have a single representative wine on their list, if anything at all. So I'm here under the imposing shadow of...
SouthAfrica.info RSS feed (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
South African wine exports are soaring in defiance of the international economic slowdown, says Wines of South Africa CEO Su Birch, with over 363-million litres sold offshore in the 12 months to July 2008, an increase of 27% on the previous 12 months.
Another Food Blog (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
It is a South African wine, a blend of 80 percent chenin blanc and 20 percent chardonnay, with 13.5 percent alcohol. Furthermore, it was on sale at half price and ready chilled, so it looked worth a try. I was serving chicken, so it seemed right for the occasion, too. There’s almost [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Last time I brought up the subject of South African wine, I promised to follow up with the results of the Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show I was involved in in May and an update of the source of the problem flavours found in some Cape reds. After a series of reports of rubbery and singed characters identified in certain South African wines as possibly, but not conclusively, affected by vineyard virus,...
jamie goode's wine blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Two wines tasted tonight. It's the 'C' and 'M' pair from high-end South African venture Vilafonte. This is a joint project between Mike Ratcliffe, Phil Freese and Zelma Long, aimed partly (I suspect) at the US market, which so far has been quite resistant to South African wine. You can read more about the project at Vilafonte's excellent website , which also includes some video content. To supplement...
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
When it comes to South African wine, John Hafferty, co-owner of the Braintree wine shop Bin Ends , has a lot to say. But when it comes to teaching people about the region, he keeps it simple. "For most folks," he said, "they want a quick overview. They want to make sure they're not drinking wine from apartheid or fascist types." Hafferty lectured on the subject at last week's Ivy League Wine College...
Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
A London restaurant with a welfare-to-work training programme will highlight wine as part of the trainees' curriculum in South Africa.
Avenue Vine (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Bruce Jack, the founder of Flagstone wines and the broker of the biggest international investment to date in the South African wine industry, has been named Wine Personality of the Year at the first Financial Mail Wine Business Awards held last night at Gallagher Estate in Johannesburg. Sponsored by Nampak and Wiegand Glass, the Wine Personality of the Year award is presented to one person who has...
