SA: wine tasting experience

Brussels 09.12.2022 South Africa is an old wine country, it celebrated 350 years of winemaking a few years ago, and it has established itself as one of the world’s leading producers of quality wine. South Africa, a country of amazing diversity and fine wines | wine tour https://t.co/jjopCNdzEU — Per Karlsson (@bkwineper) December 9, 2022…

SA: wine exports increase

Over the past three months, exports of South African wine to China jumped 50%, according to the Wines of South Africa trade body, and hopes are high for even more sales once Australian stocks are polished off during China’s Lunar New Year holiday. Over the past three months, exports of South African wine to China…

Nine S.African top wine awarded

Nine of South Africa’s top wine and food tourism providers were named honourees in the inaugural Wine & Food Tourism Conference Awards at the close of this year’s Wine and Food Tourism Conference near Stellenbosch on September 18. They were presented with their trophies by Blacky Komani, chairperson of the Tourism Business Council of South…

 Vergelegen – top African winery

South Africa’s Vergelegen wine estate in Somerset West has been voted the top winery on the African continent. (Image above: illustration). https://twitter.com/VergelegenWines/status/1149025396764971008 Vergelegen placed 34 overall in the prestigious World’s Best Vineyard 2019 competition, where a global voting panel analysed 1,500 wineries from 17 producing countries. Argentina’s Zuccardi Valle de Uco has been announced first. Vergelegen voted best…

Moët & Chandon championship for best sommelier in South Africa

The intense search of  for South Africa’s most talented sommelier started to select the top professional who will represent the nation at the 2019 Association de la Sommellerie Internationale (ASI) Best Sommelier championships in Belgium. The winner  will receive the title of  Moët & Chandon Best Sommelier South Africa 2018. Calling all talented sommeliers! Come…

South Africa humble harvest but high quality wine

They’re not yet rationing pinotage in South Africa exactly, but the country’s 3,000-plus grape growers certainly can feel some of the pain of a drought that has pushed nearby Cape Town into a state of emergency. The 2018 harvest, now under way, is projected to be significantly smaller because of depleted groundwaters and precariously low…

Endangered wild animals receive international protection

African and marine species likely to gain critical international treaty protections with overwhelming support. Lions, leopards, giraffes, chimpanzees, sharks and other key species have received overwhelming support for critical international treaty level protections at the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention for the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals,…