January 26, 2009It gives me great pleasure in announcing an estate so entrenched in the history of South African wine as the latest estate to advertise on The Cru.
Steenberg was established when:
‘In 1682 Catharina Michelse, also known as The Widow Ras, asked Simon van der Stel for a portion of ground at the foot of the Ou Kaapse [...]
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January 15, 2009It gives me great pleasure in announcing Solms-Delta as the latest wine estate to advertise here on The Cru.
For those of you who read The Cru on a regular basis - you will know that I am very fond of the estate and the glorious wine it produces.
With Mark Solms at the helm, they have an effervescent (and indeed pragmatic) [...]
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December 18, 2008The response to my post offering advertising space on The Cru has far exceeded my expectations.
A number of amazing wine estates have shown an interest in affiliating themselves with The Cru - and I will be revealing all of them in due course.
Today though, I am pleased to announce that Cederberg Wine is the very first wine [...]
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September 1, 2008The weather in the Cape over the weekend was bizarre and relentless to say the least - and just terrible luck for this years Franschhoek Uncorked.
I’m willing to bet that visitors to the valley would have been ten fold had it been sunny - as an indication, I invited about 20 people to go and [...]
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August 5, 2008My brother Craig run’s a blog called Shawza Life through which he explores his passion for food and the occasional drink - well, being a student I suppose it’s more than the occasional drink!
In his latest post he gives a rather candid account of a wine trip he and all his university friends went on [...]
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