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The New Act also contains higher fines and stiffer sentences for contraventions of the Bill. In terms of the Act, passengers will not be allowed to drink in a vehicle and it will be an offence to have an opened container of liquor in the vehicle.

In a recent issue, ‘Harpers Wine & Spirit’ turned the spotlight onto South African wines and the tasting panel was overwhelmed by the diversity offered by local wine producers.  
An independent panel consisting of wine media and experts tasted a selection of wines in the £6 – £20 price category.
The panel was impressed with South African [...]

Wine tastings can be like real estate – location, location, location. Lately, I’ve been fortunate enough to see the world through a wine glass brightly. Wine-spotting brand South Africa in exotic locales from Mauritius and the Seychelles to Hong Kong and Vietnam, I’ve tasted my way around the best of the old and new worlds [...]

The grapes come from a small vineyard block on a rocky slope beneath Bain’s Kloof Pass that is windy and open to the elements. They were handpicked and the wine was matured in 50% new French oak barrels for 14 months. This delicious wine with its rich, dark purple colour has violets, spice and aniseed aromas. The tannins are firm and well integrated. It was bottled in September 2008. It is one of only three Malbec wines produced in Wellington.

Two Cape wineland restaurants, Le Quartier Francais (No 37) and La Colombe (No 38) made the new World’s 50 Best Restaurants List in 2009. Next is Asador Etxebarri (No 39) in Spain – a venue renowned for the “primitive cuisine” of Victor Arguinzoniz, a former fire fighter turned chef who has set the culinary world on fire by cooking over an open flame. Is there a braaivleis chef out there to challenge the dominance of the high-tech gastronomy of el Bulli (No 1) and

The challenge of stiff competition from winemakers around the world plus a belt-tightening global economy have South African winemakers, like their global counterparts, racking their brains about how to make their wines the products of choice for consumers in key markets. 
Something off the beaten path is called for. And with its course Dirty Hands – [...]

The Cape Winelands are well positioned to capture an increasing share of tourism’s annual contribution of close on R160 bn to the GDP, according to André Morgenthal, a member of the local chapter of the Great Wine Capitals Global Network, which is calling for entries for the Best of Wine Tourism Awards, now in their [...]

Table Mountain has been chosen as South Africa’s representative in the New 7 Wonders of Nature competition, which will see the top natural sites of 223 countries being whittled down to 21 finalists and ultimately to seven winners in an exercise in global democracy expected to draw over a billion participants.

The 2009 wine grape harvest should amount to 1,300,202 tons, according to industry estimates (producer cellars and viticultural consultants) on 16 February 2009. This is 21 675 tons (1,6 per cent) smaller than the January 2009 estimate, and 8,5 per cent smaller than the 2008 record harvest.

It may sound like a fairytale, but Oranjeriver Wine Cellars of the Northern Cape recently hit the jackpot when its wines got listed at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, one of the world’s most famous tourist attractions. Oranjeriver’s range of Star Tree Wines, named after the quiver tree that is one of the Northern Cape’s [...]