Tequila is the Champagne of Mexico. 

The Holiday season is filled to the brim with special occasions, fancy events and friendly get togethers, all of which call for special attention to be paid not just to the right combination of hors d’oeuvres and entrées, but to the selection of wine and champagne (and how you serve them).

This festive season, bubbly enthusiasts can taste their way around some of the best vintages in the country at Fancourt ‘s first ever ‘Festival of Fizz’, to be held on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 December.

The news that the biennial Cape Wine exhibition is to become triennial confirms that SA generic wine marketing is in full retreat. Instead of holding the show every year like WineX, the Jo'burg Wine S

Our weekly RECM Best Value tasting of niche cultivars this morning confirmed that Portuguese cultivars perform best. In fact the best value wine overall hails from Lisboa while wines from De Krans co

Following on from our Grenache post of last week, here’s the first of our Grenache reviews.  A rosé nogal. I know most of you will wonder why we bother. Rosé isn’t sexy. Rosé is a kugel d

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Wine Cellar is delighted to announce that we are involved in the 2015 Cape Wine Auction with a ‘Young Guns’ lot. Each year the auction raises money for education in the Cape winelands, and

Save the Date…Saturday 29 November for The Nederburg Annual Picnic Concert.  You don’t want to miss one of most spectacular events of the year presented by Nederburg Wine. Be sure to join this

Stellar Organics winemaker Klaas Coetzee cracked the nod from fellow winemakers when The River’s End Pinot Noir 2013, the first organic Pinot Noir in South Africa, won a diamond award in the 2014 Wi

The Boplaas 1880 Ox Wagon Reserve 8 Year Potstill Brandy is as fine a liquor product as I’ve drunk all year. My first encounter with it was during the blind tasting of wines put forward for this yea