Screaming Eagle is a tiny, cult winery in California’s Napa Valley and produces arguably the most sought-after wine in the US. In a coup for the SA wine industry, its winemaker, Andy Erickson, is set to lead the winemaking team at Mulderbosch Vineyards in Stellenbosch from 2011. This follows the […]
Cape Point Vineyards have raised R35 000.00 in the past year through the sale of their Splattered Toad range of wines. This range of wine was launched last November in support of the Toad Nuts – Noordhoek Unpaid Toad Savers! The Western Leopard Toad is an endangered species and at […]
As a regular visitor to Plettenberg Bay, I have been watching the development and growth of various wine farms from a distance. This is not because I have doubted that they will succeed, but rather because I love nothing better than visiting, examining the vines in the soil and then tasting […]
The Featherbed Nature Reserve located on the western head in Knysna offers visitors unspoilt views of the river mouth, Thesen and Leisure islands and the Outeniqua mountain range. Tours depart daily from 10h00 and 12h00 and includes a buffet lunch. For those wanting a shorter tour experience, the afternoon tour […]
Asking an Italian about Michelangelo would perhaps invite a scorn and a frown but in South Africa it has a different connotation, where the 14th Michelangelo International Awards wine competition is underway in Stellenbosch, writes Subhash Arora who has been invited as one of the international judges. Founded by a […]
FOR a limited time only, buyers can pick up a vineyard in the Margaret River free. The decline in value of wine Âassets in the millionaires’ playground of Western Australia has been so great that some vineyards lost all of their value, after being priced at $60,000 to $70,000 a […]
A Blenheim man’s invention takes wineries one step closer to going off-grid. Kevin Parker, of Blenheim company Vine Gas Ltd, has invented an engine with an inbuilt distillation column which produces and is fuelled by ethanol made from winemaking waste. Heat from the engine is captured and used to drive […]
Research that ranks Australians among the world’s worst abusers of alcohol is more proof of the need for alcohol tax reform and price increases, experts say. Professor Paul Haber, medical director of Drug Health Services for the Sydney South-West Area Health Service, said introducing a volumetric tax would help to […]
RMB WineX Cape Town will open at the CTICC on 19 August as a completely different show. After seven years as the largest and most important premium consumer wine event in the Western Cape, RMB WineX will be raising an already elevated bar. Aiming for quality rather than quantity, the organisers […]
The very first goal scored at the Fifa World Cup on the 11th of June 2010 by Tshabalala was electrifying…Soccer City exploded! But it was not only about the beautiful game… The united spirit of the rainbow people of South Africa during the joyous month of the World Cup had […]
