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South African new-wave wines revisited

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Jancis Robinson
Friday 4 July 2025 • 8 min read
2015 New Wave SA tasting booklets

The first 'Steenwold' blind tasting took place last May in London. Above, the 2015 new-wave tasting booklets were pictured by Richard Bray, who also captured Jancis tasting with Donovan Rall below. See also How well have new-wave South African wines aged?

Vintage 2015 is particularly celebrated in South Africa, and it was also the year of a seminal tasting in London, reported on here. Organised by importer/retailer Swig, this was the first time the UK wine trade (and, in the evening, members of JancisRobinson.com) had a chance to taste the wines of the new, youngish cohort of wine producers...