Distell’s black economic empowerment (BEE) deal – signed in 2005 – has paid out in excess of R600m after tax to about 4,000 employees as part of the company’s employee share ownership plan (ESOP,) culminating in an important milestone on the JSE-listed wine and spirits producers’ transformation journey. The share value windfall was […]
On 1st December 2010, off the Cape Agulhas Lighthouse at the tip of Africa, Hidden Valley dropped a French Oak barrel of Shiraz wine into the sea. After 15 months of “Marine Maturationâ€Â in the infamous Cape of Storms sea, at a depth of 12,5 meters, the barrel was retrieved and brought home to Hidden […]
WHAT: Chenin Blanc is one of the least understood and least appreciated grapes in the world. And that’s a shame because it makes a great wine. Some people confuse it with Sauvignon Blanc, but the two grapes are very different. Both can make great wine, but the Chenin Blanc often […]
The Cape Wine Academy is proud to announce Michelle Grimbeek’s appointment to Managing Director of the Cape Wine Academy as of the 1st January 2014. Michelle is presently the Cape Wine Academy Regional Manager, a position she has held since 2002, and is based at the Academy’s Cape Town Stellenbosch […]
Is wine is adapting to the changing consumer? Mintel analyst, Jonny Forsyth, argues that this is currently not the case and that in his country, the UK, the industry is led too much by its own prejudices and mores rather than those of the consumer. The same is probably true […]
Founded in 1979, the Cape Wine Academy is recognised as the official wine education and training institution in South Africa. Now a passionate South African is bringing it to London.  The Cape Wine Academy (CWA) is a bona fide South African institution with diplomas and all, and now it’s coming […]
Continued growth in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, and the benefits derived from a weak rand resulted in the Distell Group raising revenue year-on-year by 9,3% to R8,7 billion for the six months to December 2012. Â In a climate of mostly muted markets because of the continued global pressure […]
The wine grape harvest in the lower Orange River Region has recovered after two below average years, with the 2013 harvest poised to be a very good one in terms of volumes and quality.  The size of the 2011 harvest was heavily affected by the some of the region’s […]
27 November 2012  by Pongrácz  Pongrácz Rosé has been ranked Top 10 in the world at the 2012 Effervescents du Monde, the international competition held in Dijon, France to find the Best Sparkling Wines in the World including French Champagne.  “To be amongst this illustrious line-up of the […]
It has been a 15-year journey realised for Marilyn Cooper, Cape Wine Master and CEO of the Cape Wine Academy, as Minister of Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk officially launched the Wine Advisors – level 1 Cape Sommelierâ„¢ programme.  The National Department of Tourism (NDT) is investing R11-million in the […]