The Nedbank Green Wine Awards were recently held at the Mount Nelson Hotel. Not only were the top organic wines in South Africa revealed, but just as importantly, the Best Environmental Practices Award winners were announced.
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With global warming and human population growing exponentially, the Earth is pleading for help from us. What can we do? Well. firstly, change the way we think. Let's start with the way we farm...
Wines entered
were divided up into categories according
to grape variety or style and tasted blind
by the fi ve-person panel, with scoring done
according to the 20-point/5 Star system.
For the inaugural Nedbank Green Wine Awards, producers
were asked to submit wine from organically grown grapes, a condition of entry being that submissions be accompanied by valid certification, such as that issued by the Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS).
The local organic wine farming movement seems to be growing steadily and WINE thought it opportune to assess the overall quality of wines claiming this status. Christian Eedes reports.
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