Well, here they are - the Platters Five Star Wines 2010  - all 41 of them ( a record by the way)!
I can’t comment too much because I have admittedly only tried about 5 of these wines. What I can say is that its encouraging to see so many small  and relatively ‘unknown’ producers on the list, the inclusion of [...]

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South African wine producers spend more than R4.2m every year on local wine-tasting competitions in the hope of being able to attach winners’ labels to their bottles so as to set them apart from the rest of the industry.
This was the finding of Kim Maxwell, who performed an in-depth investigation for the wine industry’s monthly [...]

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Apparently. Well according this article anyway.
SA wine farms ‘not viable’
Here are some highlights from the article/report by VinPro and WineTech:
Average production costs in the wine industry have risen by 24% over the past five years to R23 578/ha.
Over the same period wine producers’ income and net income have fallen by 6% and 52% respectively.
This is [...]

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Stumbled upon this rather negative article on Fin24 this morning:
Boycott may hit South African winery.
Now to summarise the article in brief:
Delheim Wine Estate, outside Stellenbosch, is being accused of forcing pensioners out of their homes on the estate and as a result could lose contracts to export wine to Denmark en Sweden.
The article also accuses [...]

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I picked this up on my twitter feed from Mike Ratcliffe who asked if it “was the coolest wine marketing concept ever?”
Well it may very well be but it hasn’t started yet and we dont know how well it will do - nevertheless, it is a brilliant idea:
The Great South African Wine Trail
Wines of South Africa (WOSA) is launching a [...]

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