JUST a generation ago, the prices of reds and whites at a South African wine farm were very seldom less than what they sold for at wine shops in the towns nearby. Only a few winery proprietors would risk the wrath of retailers who might well refuse to stock the product of any supplier who dared to undercut them. Times
Read moreSO HOW readily available are the Top 100 South African wines in the 2022 Classification, those with the best track records spanning the past 10 years, and how much are the current releases selling for? Well, a Top Wine SA survey of the country’s leading online merchants, focusing on those wines in the Hall of Fame (highlighted in bold below),
Read moreMAKRO and Ultra Liquors are top of the pops for many bargain-hunters when it comes to South African wine shopping. However, where to go if price is just one of your criteria for choosing a wine store, if you’re also after a good shopping experience, knowledgeable folk and a selection that extends to craft and artisanal, cutting edge and the
Read moreWHO ARE the best of the specialists when it comes to SA wine retailers? See above or below for the prime candidates in South Africa, but have we left out anyone, any place? And, while we’re about it, where best to shop for South African wines anywhere else in the world? Caroline’s Fine Wine Cellar Cape Town: CBD
Read moreWITH South Africa’s Cabernet Sauvignon particularly topical in May, following Winemag’s annual review of the category for their Prescient Report, it seemed a good time to circulate an update of the prices being charged for the country’s leading examples – the Top 20 Cabs according to the SA Wine Classification. Cellar-door prices are those posted by the producers and the market survey
Read moreA SURVEY of what top reds and whites are selling for at South Africa’s leading wine shops relative to cellar-door prices points to consistency in some areas and big discrepancies in others. Those who love to visit the wine routes might be disappointed to discover, if they aren’t already well aware, that what you pay on the farm is often
Read moreTHERE ARE plenty of wine shops with an online presence delivering South African vino to most corners of the country and around the world, but who’s doing the best job, how to weigh them up against one another, where to go for that elusive beauty or special bargain from the Cape? A survey of which stores offer a good number of the
Read moreNORMAN GOODFELLOWS is unrivalled as a purveyor of top quality and good value wines in Johannesburg, Gauteng, and the opening of two stores in Cape Town is great news for residents and tourists on the doorstep to the winelands of the Western Cape. No doubt Caroline’s Fine Wine Cellar, Wine Concepts and others who specialise in retailing the liquid pleasures of
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