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.

From the hundreds of entries for this year’s popular and ground-breaking Delush Wines Fearless Tastemaker Competition, ten dynamic, stylish and social media influencing ladies have been announced as the finalists.

A red muscadel from Orange River Wine Cellars has been named one of the Top 10 wines of the world at the annual Muscats du Monde, the leading international competition for muscat wines which is annually held in France.

Delush, one of South Africa’s fastest-growing wine brands, has launched its second competition looking for the country’s fashionable go-getter, one who makes things happen to her own style and suited to being an ambassador for and influencer of the Delush range of deliciously different wines.

Orange River Cellars from the Northern Cape put in another sterling performance at a leading South African wine competition, taking one Top 100 spots as well as two Double Gold medals in the Top 100 SA Wines/National Wine Challenge held in Cape Town recently.

Lafras Huguenet