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It is the reign of Shannon Mount Bullet, Elgin – South Africa’s top Merlot

05/2018 Mike Froud Leave a comment

OVER THE TOP? Perhaps. But while there are very few occasions when you can feel relaxed talking about a No. 1 rather than a Top 10, say, surely this is one of them. The 2015 vintage of Mount Bullet from Shannon Vineyards was judged Best Merlot in South Africa’s 2018 National Wine Challenge and awarded top score in Winemag’s annual Merlot

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Beautiful Elgin graduates to top wine-producing area and visitor-friendly route with growing number of restaurants

12/2013 Mike Froud Leave a comment

THE OWNERS of Oak Valley Estate might have been the first to build a winery in the vicinity of Grabouw around 100 years ago, but it was Paul Cluver Snr who really got the Elgin winelands going when he planted his first vineyards in the mid-1980s and began bottling on his farm from the late 1990s. It’s been many years