Update:
The person in the picture with me is Mbhazima Shilowa - Premier of Gauteng. What a wonderful man with an enormous amount of charisma and charm. It was a real pleasure and honour to share a glass of wine with him!
Yesterday, I shared some stunning wine with a rather important South African dignitary.
I’d like you [...]

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Welcome to the new home of The Cru!
I hope you enjoy the new look and feel - and if you do can I ask you to do three things:

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Change all existing links to The Cru on your sites to www.thecru.co.za
Bookmark the new site now!

There may be some tweeks here or there [...]

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Happy new year everyone!
Have an amazing evening and above all - drink some great wine and champagne!
2008 promises to be an exciting year for The Cru so stay tuned!
To begin with I will be releasing a new look Cru in the next two weeks - it’s going to be a lot easier to navigate around [...]

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The other night my brother phoned me in a state of excitement.
“A girlfriend of mine has just given me a bottle of Groot Constantia Gouverneurs Reserve 1995!”
“Right, bring it over - 7pm at my place - it’s from the year we won the Rugby World Cup, it’s bound to be good” I replied.
The superlatives [...]

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Last Wednesday my good friend the Muso and I attended a tasting of South African Legends at the Winecellar in Observatory.
I had been looking forward to the prospect of tasting wines older than I am for a good month or two. Needless to say I found it hard to contain the excitement levels given the [...]

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