No Tablecloths
Cork is storming back into the SA winelands and not just as bottle stoppers. Yesterday’s slap-up brunch at JC Le Roux in Devon Valley to launch a new Brut MCC featured eats from the boonste rakke (top shelves) served on a cork covered table.
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Competition: Riesling Shootout
Well the Riesling Competition attracted a whole slew of entries and the central committee has selected two finalists:
1) Ancient history, modern mystery from Ingrid Biesheuvel
and
2) Join the Riesling revelation from Kwispedoor
By posting a c...
Jannie climbs into Distell
While the dust settles on Japan’s stricken radioactive power stations and global stock markets tank, one of the transformers of SA wine, Jannie Mouton, whose recent bid for KWV came unstuck to Marcel Golding, has gobbled up another R2 million rands w...
No pods for the Swartland
The cunning plan of WOSA – Wines of SA, the exporter’s deep-throat – for the London Wine Trade Fair, focuses on pods. 25 pods will be used to display 12 wines each on a self-serve basis to wine buyers and journalists in London. By plumping for ...
Constantia Triumphs at the Classic Wine Trophy Show
The news that the country’s oldest wine estate Groot Constantia won the laurels at the Classic Wine Trophy Show comes as a bonus to CEO Jean Naudé who is increasingly turning his thoughts eastwards. As the March newsletter vouchsafes “Jean invite...
Marketing Meltdown
The news that WOSA (Wines of SA, the exporters’ mouthpiece) are to invite journalists and wine buyers to an evening ‘beer & biltong’ get-together at the London Wine Trade Fair is perhaps the most public example of shooting yourself i...
WOSA abandons Wine, chooses Beer
Gabriel Savage, writing in The Drinks Business, reckons 2011 will be another tough year for wine in the UK and in particular quotes Adrian Burns on the on-trade market: “South Africa [is] still struggling to make much impression.” A position diame...
Walmart against Wine?
As SA wine lovers wait impatiently for US retail giant Walmart to smash the SA distribution mafia and turn Game and Makro into good value retail outlets with a national footprint in the proud tradition of Tops at Spar, a warning shot has been fired in ...
Trailer Park Trash
Papped at the Trailer Park Trash Bash on the roof of the Grand Daddy Hotel in Long Street, Cape Town, last night were two of the Cape’s most famous winemakers: Razvan Macici and Adi Badenhorst.
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Judging by the beverage...
Sop & Soetes
At least one SA producer is taking Eric Asimov’s Manichean contention seriously. While Yahweh separated light and darkness, Eric divides the Mondovino up into sweet and savoury, or savory in his case. Which rings a bell in SA, a country which pione...
