Wineries & Personalities

Golfers' Wine Farms

Mention the names of Gary Player, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen and the automatic assumption is that a discussion on golf would follow. Not so. WINE’s Rob Morris reports on golfers and their wines.

The GS Cabernet 1966 has always been spoken of in reverential tones as the ultimate South African wine. Yet it remains a bit of a mystery. Joanne Simon attempts to establish the facts - and tastes what all the fuss is about.

Stellenbosch Central

Stellenbosch is renowned as the town of abundant oak trees, the Eikestad, or either a historic Cape Dutch or university town. Yet it’s also a wine town – even if many of the vineyards and wine farms lie on its periphery. By Fiona McDonald.

Slanghoek Private Selection 2007

There is often little romance about a co-operative winery like Slanghoek which makes it laudable that good quality smaller batches of wine are produced here.

Tukulu 2007

“This wine could happily stand up to the wooded examples,” was what one of the judges in WINE magazine’s Chenin Blanc Challenge said about the Tukulu 2007.

Riding the R44: Stellenbosch to Somerset

What to do and where to go if you have a day - or even just a few hours - in the winelands. By Fiona McDonald

Chenin Blanc Challenge 2008, Napier

Jean Daneel's decision to go solo is paying dividends with him having won the 2008 Chenin Blanc Challenge, the third time he has won this competition. Christian Eedes reports.