Tag: South African Wine
- Catherine Fielden
- 3 Nov 2022
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Spier Wine Farm: a Stellenbosch estate where wine and art go hand in hand
One of the great wine debates is whether the winemaking process is a science or an art form. While there are convincing arguments that both science and art come into play when crafting a wine, some producers actively embrace the concept of art more wholeheartedly than others.
Spier Wine Farm, one of the oldest wineries in South Africa, takes ...
- Catherine Fielden
- 21 Mar 2022
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How Care for Wild Wines have helped rescue and rehabilitate orphaned rhinos
Eighteen months ago, in the midst of the pandemic, the Care for Wild Wine Collection was officially launched. The virtual event was hosted by Slurp alongside brand ambassador and ex-England cricketer Darren Gough and his wife Anna. Also in attendance were a host of wine professionals, journalists, retailers and Slurp customers, all ...
- Catherine Fielden
- 14 Sep 2020
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Care for Wild Wines: The Wine Brand Helping to Save Endangered Rhinos
If Covid has taught us anything, it has made us appreciate the world around us and reflect upon what we have previously taken for granted. It has been a good time to take stock and recognise that we need to make changes if we want to leave the next generation with the legacy of a more compassionate world. However, months of lockdown ...
- Catherine Fielden
- 28 Aug 2020
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Saving South African Wines from a Lockdown Hangover
The South African wine industry finally breathed a sigh of relief at midnight on 17 August when the Federal government scrapped a ban on domestic alcohol sales. The ban had been in place, apart from a six week relaxation in June and July, since the end of March. In response to the Covid-19 crisis, South Africa imposed one of the ...
- Hugh Taylor
- 30 Jun 2020
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Brampton Wines – Roxton Black added to the Stellenbosch brand’s flagship series
A bull walks into a wine shop.
Bold, handsome, and flexing its muscles, the newly released Roxton Black is the latest addition to the Stellenbosch brand’s Flagship “Roxton” series.
Roxton, like his predecessor Brampton, was a pedigree bull that was imported from the UK before the Second World War to bolster our herd here in ...
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