Update 9 May 2013: We've just been made aware that Vincisive also stock a number of these wines, including the entire Mullineux range. Don't apply if you are over 35. Not an ageist clause...

The majority of these 116 wines from some of South Africa's finest producers were tasted at two events in London towards the end of last year, one organised by independent retailer Handford Wines...

'New world fruit, old world structure.' That was the shorthand phrase I learned for my MW studies in order to identify South African wine. As far as generalisations go, it was usually pretty...

See also Richard on a vertical of Iona Sauvignon Blanc and my recent notes on some of the Cape Winemakers Guild wines , as well as the Cape's other, recently highlighted, challenge ....

I recently sat next to an American wine writer who informed me that he didn’t like South African wine and would never visit the country because ‘those people are all racist’. His comment was...

South African wine writer Tim James of www.grape.co.za polled 26 respected observers of the South African wine scene with the questionnaire below*. (I declined, on the basis that I have not been...

Hardly is the northern hemisphere wine harvest over (in fact when last I heard, some Canadian wine producers were yet to pick their 2009 Icewine), than the southern hemisphere harvest begins....

  See a new report on the potential for safely using lighter bottles for sparkling wines here . Unlike most, South Africa's wine industry is doing rather well in terms of exports,...

Our African week continues... Paul Boutinot, pragmatic and successful owner of a wine importing business based in Manchester in the north-west of England, has settled on South Africa to...

We continue our African Week with this report on what Julia tasted recently in South Africa. The most striking aspect of what I tasted in the two days after I finished judging in the...

GS Cabernet 1966 has near-mythical status in South Africa. In this article, originally published in WINE magazine in South Africa, Joanne Gibson ( Normal 0...

In a nutshell : Distinctive reds, a good range of whites, some bargains and increasingly convincing answers to international styles. Main grapes : Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon,...

See also Some great South African wine buys . One of the great mysteries of the world of wine is why South African wine is not more celebrated. The best examples offer wine lovers...

Tomorrow I will publish some enthusiastic tasting notes on a selection of top South African wines, some of which I believe represent real bargains.   My enthusiasm for the South...

At the first day of the annual generic South African tasting in London it was a bit spooky the way that Bruce Jack of Flagstone suddenly materialised by my side at 5pm, expiry of the embargo on...