The other night I was sharing a bottle of wine with my good friend The Wine Thief and the conversation ventured onto the topic of ‘French First Growths’ and how many cases we will one day have in our private cellars (wine does that to the imagination - it’s always good to dream).
I then posed [...]

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A guest post by one lucky little BarRat: 
The best day in the winelands?
Yesterday was a pretty good day for me. In fact it was such a good day, that I challenge you to top this for a winelands excursion. Where to start? Ah yes, a little round of golf at De Zalze, one of the [...]

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Never in the history of South African wine has one farm managed to win two Decanter national trophies in two consecutive years - well now Cederberg have.
For the third year running Cederberg Private Cellar – since it started participating in the competition four years ago – was awarded a trophy
Trophy: Category: SA Red Bordeaux varietal over [...]

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Well it seems that the fires are still raging in the Helderberg and firefighters are still battling 24/7 to save three of our magnificent wine estates.
Apparently some vines are indeed on fire and/or have been burnt :
“The fires are currently burning on three farms and threatening the Vergelegen, Lourensford, and Knorhoek wine estates,” said Senior [...]

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Well it seems like the whole world is on fire at the moment - this from News24 :
Somerset West - Emergency services are battling to get the fires raging in four areas in the Helderberg region under control, fire services said on Monday.
Four wine farms in the area - Erinvale, Lourensford, Vergelegen and Knorhoek - [...]

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