IT’S UNIQUE. Over a long weekend in May every year throughout the small towns of Graaff-Reinet and Nieu Bathesda in South Africa’s Great Karoo, thousands of wine lovers arrive from far and wide to meander among the houses, wandering from veranda to veranda – or stoep to stoep, as they say in Afrikaans. Every hotel, guesthouse and BnB is fully
Read moreTHE ANNUAL Robertson Wine Valley’s winter wine festival has been cancelled… Having been enjoyed by revellers for the past 17 years, the Wacky Wine Weekend will not take place again! “It is a bitter-sweet decision, but it was time,” said Robertson Wine Route manager Beatrix Galloway. Apparently the festival was giving the wines of Robertson a bad name [busloads of
Read moreSOMETHING(S) to bear in mind if planning a trip to the Cool Wine & Country Festival in Elgin between 9am and 5pm on 2 & 3 May that involves a weekend pass costing R100 pp: Not every Elgin wine will be on show – non-participants include Richard Kershaw, Spioenkop and Sutherland (of Thelema), plus a number of other producers who
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