The CEO of Orange River Cellars Charl du Plessis says he supports the call to regulate the pricing of cheap wine products such as the so-called rooi proppie drink.

Looking to expand both its product portfolio and continental reach, Orange River Cellars is approaching Africa?s wine industry in a new and innovative way.

The results of the 29th annual Veritas Awards were announced last night, Spier the most successful producer with nine double gold medals and seven gold

According to statistics from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, South Africa is the seventh biggest wine making country in the world.

It had to happen. With the runaway success of the Delush range of natural sweet wines, South Africa’s fastest growing wine brand has uncorked its first Sparkling Wine.

According to statistics from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, South Africa is the seventh biggest wine making country in the world.

Top image: At this year’s Veritas Awards: Rianco van Rooyen, left, winemaker at Orange River Cellars, with Elunda Basson from Pongracz and Bennie Howard, Veritas’s marketing head.

In its best performance in any wine competition to date, Orange River Cellars from Upington was named one of the top producers at this year’s acclaimed Veritas Awards, South Africa’s leading wine and brandy competition.

Top image: Nomfundo Mlaba

The Delush Fearless Tastemaker for 2018 is Nomfundo Mlaba, the stylish and elegant young journalist from Durban who travelled to Johannesburg for the second time in one week for the announcement on Metro FM radio.

This is the second year the competition has been held, and once again we are amazed at the entries received for the Delush Fearless Tastemaker competition. Wow – what a selection of incredible ladies the judges had to go through before deciding on the final Top 10.

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From Left: Johan Ehlers, CEO of Agri-Expo with the team from Orange River Cellars’ Keimoes Winery Rianco van Rooyen, Mosdop Dippenaar and Wouter Loubser. On the far right is Hugo Lochner, president of Agri-Expo.