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Love of People: Mentorship and Diversity in the Wine Industry. From representation to real power.

September 15, 2025

Across the Cape Winelands, a quiet shift is gaining momentum, one rooted in mentorship, ownership and community development. It’s a shift that’s not just reshaping who [...]

Swirl, sniff, sip AND story – how narrative makes wine mean more

May 22, 2025

Long before tasting rooms and Insta-worthy vineyards, there were people. Characters. Romances. Epic treks. And, yes, wine. It turns out that what’s in the bottle often [...]

Local Chardonnay is on the rise

October 21, 2024

If you were to name Chardonnay as South Africa’s fastest growing category in 2024, you’d be right. According to Head of Insights and Business Advisory at Vinimark, Oelof [...]

42: The answer to life, the universe – and winemaking

September 5, 2024

The number 42 might appear at first glance to be just an ordinary pair of digits, but for fans of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy it holds a [...]

Notes on tasting: How does ‘Cat’s Pee on a Gooseberry Bush’ grab you?

May 20, 2024

This could be one of wine tasting’s most (in)famous quotes. Occasionally, we do need to resort to brutal honesty or shock factor to describe wine, to define that which is [...]

Harvesting the future: South African wine continues to transform

February 26, 2024

Praisy Dlamini & Ruth Faro from HER Wines.

As the country celebrates 365 years of winemaking, award-winning wine writer Malu Lambert asks what forces are shaping the future of South Africa’s wine industry, which is [...]

Matured to perfection over eight years, Spier proudly releases the small-lot 2016 Prestige Cuvée Cap Classique

February 12, 2024

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When it comes to winemaking, Cap Classique is not your standard bottle of wine. For winemakers up to the task, crafting a Cap Classique shifts into the territory of a magnum [...]

The latest Cap Classique trends and why South Africans are loving it so much

January 16, 2024

Like bubbles rising in a flute, Cap Classique is on the ascent. Here are the latest trends and why South Africans are loving it so much. Not too long ago, we knew it as [...]

Spier’s Golden Grapes Championing regenerative farming, Spier wins 3 Double Golds and 4 Golds at 2023 Veritas Awards

October 23, 2023

Spier is honoured to have been recognised once again at the 2023 Veritas Awards held this month. The Spier 21 Gables Chenin Blanc 2021, Creative Block 5 2020 and Seaward [...]

Spier introduces Organic Harvest: A Garden-to-Glass Tasting

June 14, 2023

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As the demand for more naturally produced wines – that taste just as good – rises, Spier’s new Organic Harvest: a Garden-to-Glass tasting at Spier proves that [...]

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