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2009’s much eulogised status is well deserved – 10 Year Old Report

03/2019 Mike Froud Leave a comment

WHITES from Tokara and Raats, reds from Haut Espoir, La Bri, Rustenberg, Remhoogte and Tokara, sweets from Nederburg and Boplaas… The top-scoring South African producers in Winemag’s 10 Year Old Report 2019. To quote Christian Eedes, who chaired the three-man panel that included Roland Peens and James Pietersen of Cape Town merchant Wine Cellar: “The 2009 vintage is generally considered

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Calitzdorp
Franschhoek
SA Wine Ratings
Stellenbosch
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Rustenberg’s flagship wines among the casualties of Stellenbosch fire

02/2016 Mike Froud One comment

A MONTH AFTER the last flames to sweep over the Simonsberg in Stellenbosch had been extinguished, there were still no official reports as to the full extent of the damage and loss suffered on this special stretch of the Cape winelands. Thankfully there were no human casualties, but the fires were devastating, with farms in the path of the inferno left totting up the