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.