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Opinion & Analysis

Editorial: What are you really buying when you buy expensive wine?

17 August 2026

Fine wine has for some time been treated as a luxury good. Prestigious names, limited quantities, elaborate packaging, higher prices, allocation lists and increasingly elaborate stories around provenance are now...

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Tim James: Drill, Baby, Drill – wine’s unlikely alliance with Big Oil

17 August 2026

The wonderful Kogelberg Biosphere, home to 1 880 species of fynbos (and with a number of grape varieties as guests), asks on its website: “The Kogelberg and a changing climate:...

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Tokara Telos vertical: 2015 – 2019

16 August 2026

G.T. Ferreira, co-founder of Rand Merchant Bank and later founding chairman of FirstRand, acquired the Stellenbosch property that became Tokara in 1994. A cellar was built in 1999, with the...

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Savage new releases

14 August 2026

At the outset of a pre-release tasting of his 2025 wines, Duncan Savage observes, “The market’s tight. I’m so happy I didn’t follow the trend to go aspirational R1,000 a...

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De Meye new releases

13 August 2026

Many readers of this site will know the Muldersvlei property De Meye for The Table at De Meye, the excellent restaurant run by chef couple Brendan Thorncroft and Leigh Williamson....

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3 June 2022

Winemag.co.za exists both to celebrate South Africa’s best wines and as a forum where ideas can be exchanged and opposing arguments can be put forward towards determining the best outcomes...

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Prescient Fund Services Spring Series 2026: Call for entries

6 August 2026

Category Reports, sponsored by Prescient Fund Services, are being released this year across four seasonal series: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. The Autumn and Winter Series have already been published,...

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Book now for the Aspiring Top Drop Awards public tasting 2026 – Cape Town

16 August 2026

Please join Winemag.co.za for a walk-around tasting of the Aspiring Top Drop Awards 2026 best-performers – 22 exceptional-value wines, all retailing for R120 or less. Event Details Date: Friday 4 September...

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Trizanne Signature Wines Seascape Range new releases

11 August 2026

Trizanne Barnard’s Seascape Range is sourced from vineyards across the Southern Cape, with the hallmark of her wines perhaps being their faultless execution. “I’m particular in the cellar. My volumes...

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Mullineux revives historic Cape grape Sémillon Gris

6 August 2026

A forgotten piece of Cape wine history has been given a new lease on life. After more than a decade of selection, propagation and certification, Sémillon Gris has been recognised...

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Kanonkop appoints Dirk van Zyl as winemaker

3 August 2026

Kanonkop has appointed Dirk van Zyl, 36, as its new head winemaker. He succeeds Francois van Zyl, who resigned unexpectedly earlier this year, and will take up the role at...

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Opinion & Analysis

Michael Fridjhon: Wine scores haven’t failed – we’ve debased them

12 August 2026

Christian Eedes’s recent piece on judging, scoring and the role of the critic was a masterly summary of the issues being debated in the admittedly rarefied space where people ponder...

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Tim James: The story of semillon (white and red) in the Cape

11 August 2026

What is probably the world’s newest grape variety (for a while at least) has its past firmly rooted in three centuries or more of Cape winemaking. As reported last week,...

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Editorial: Why wine doesn’t begin at 95 points

4 August 2026

In the space of a few days this past July, some of South Africa’s most celebrated producers – Sadie Family Wines, Van Loggerenberg and David & Nadia – released new...

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New Cape Town spot reimagines the boerewors roll

5 August 2026

Buri, a new casual eatery from Belly Restaurant Group founders Neil Swart and Anouchka Horn, has opened on Harrington Street, Cape Town. The concept reimagines the classic boerewors roll with...

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Prescient Fund Services Pinotage Report 2026: Top 10

23 June 2026

Introduction This year’s Pinotage Report sponsored by financial services company Prescient Fund Services is now out. There were 45 entries from 29 producers and these were tasted blind (labels out...

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Prescient Fund Services Signature Red Blend Report 2026: Top 10

23 June 2026

Introduction This year’s Signature Red Blend Report sponsored by financial services company Prescient Fund Services is now out. There were 55 entries from 45 producers and these were tasted blind...

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Prescient Fund Services Sweet Wine & Fortifieds Report 2026: Top 10

23 June 2026

Introduction The Sweet Wine & Fortifieds Report 2026 sponsored by Prescient Fund Services is now out. Wines were tasted blind (labels out of sight) by a three-person panel, scoring done...

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