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Prescient Fund Services Chardonnay Report 2025: Top 10

17 October 2025

Introduction This year’s Chardonnay Report convened by Winemag.co.za and sponsored by Prescient Fund Services is now out. There were 76 entries from 56 producers and these were tasted blind (labels...

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Prescient Fund Services Winery of the Year 2025 – coming soon!

16 October 2025

Our sixth annual award, recognising the top-performing producer across 13 Prescient Fund Services-sponsored category reports, will be revealed at 22h00 on Friday, 17 October. Also stay tuned for the Top...

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Dr Justus Apffelstaedt: On cooking with wine – the scientific basis

16 October 2025

“I always cook with wine and sometimes I also put it into the food.” This quote is attributed to WC Fields who could be termed the father of American comedy....

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Catherine Marshall new releases

13 October 2025

Catherine Marshall, one of South Africa’s pioneering independent winemakers, graduated from Elsenberg in 1991 and went on to establish her own label under the name Barefoot Wine Company in 1997...

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Raats new releases

9 October 2025

Raats Family Wines where the focus is very much on Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc grows ever more formidable. Bruwer Raats established the label in 2000, with his cousin Gavin...

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Fogwell Syrah 2024

8 October 2025

What might happen if Syrah from two of the Cape’s most exciting sites were brought together? Now in its second vintage, Fogwell 2024 (price: R540 a bottle) is a collaboration...

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Bordeaux blends at 10: SA holds its own

9 October 2025

Earlier this year, a tasting titled “South Africa’s New Wave Tasting – Ten Years On” was held in London, where various wine professionals revisited the wines of the so-called young...

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Werner Muller set to leave Iona

8 October 2025

Werner Muller, winemaker at Elgin’s Iona since May 2011, will depart in May 2026 after completing the harvest. Muller says: "While I have no specifics to share at this point,...

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Michael Fridjhon: Pinotage turns 100 – time to grow up about it

15 October 2025

You would have to be less than half-literate and perversely uninterested not to note that 2025 is the Centenary Year of Pinotage. Even if pinotage is not your cultivar of...

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Tim James: Five summer white wines under R170 – how do they stack up?

13 October 2025

Summer is more or less here in Cape Town, with occasional backward glances to winter, and I believe that it’s been resident in Johannesburg, for example, for some time already....

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Greg Sherwood MW: Shifts in the Southern Rhône and what SA wine can learn

8 October 2025

It’s sometimes funny to think that wine producers, regional bodies, and certainly consumers in South Africa so often look to the classical Old-World regions of France, Germany, Spain, and Italy...

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Absa Top 10 Olive Oil Awards 2025

16 October 2025

South Africa’s finest Extra Virgin Olive Oils (EVOOs) were recently celebrated at the 12th annual Absa Top 10 Olive Oil Awards. The awards follow the annual SA Olive Awards, where...
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Prescient Fund Services Cape Bordeaux Red Blend Report 2025: Top 10

19 August 2025

Introduction This year’s Cape Bordeaux Red Blend Report convened by Winemag.co.za and sponsored by global financial services company Prescient is now out. There were 48 entries from 38 producers and...

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Prescient Fund Services Sauvignon Blanc Report 2025: Top 10

19 August 2025

Introduction This year’s Sauvignon Blanc Report sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient is now out. There were 78 entries received from 55 producers and these were tasted blind (labels...

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Prescient Fund Services Pinotage Report 2025: Top Six

1 July 2025

Introduction This year’s Pinotage Report sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient is now out. There were 48 entries received from 32 producers and these were tasted blind (labels out...
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