STELLENBOSCH AND VINFRUCO MERGE

FRIDJHON UNREPENTANT

By Stuart Peskett

BOUTINOT BUYS SOUTH AFRICAN WINE FARM

By Jack Hibberd

BOSCHENDAL SOLD

By Jack Hibberd

DAVID HOHNEN RETIRES

By Max Allen

VAN RENSBURG STELVINS

By Tim Atkin MW

PARAGON LANDS NEWTON AND VERGELEGEN

BOISSET AND VINCOR

RECORD SALES AT NEDERBURG AUCTION

PLATTER GUIDE FIVE-STAR WINNERS

South Africa is ideal for Shiraz

by James Aufenast

Homes for South African workers

By Christian Davis

South Africa has 3 years to gain premium image

A major South African wine company has said the country has only three years to attain a premium level for its wines.

My View: Spotlight on South Africa

South Africa is under the UK wine trade spotlight, with everyone pontificating on the best way forward.

Wines in the Weekly Press

Daily Mail
Oz Clarke's forthcoming BBC series - Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure - is thrown into the spotlight by JILL PARKIN as she takes a look behind the scenes of the televised French road/wine trip. She finds that Oz remains a true expert on all things vinous -when it comes to wine, he can talk you beautifully into anything' - although Top Gear's James May reveals that his car knowledge is somewhat lacking: He's quite good at talking about them in a lyrical way but he thinks they've still got carburettors.' The series will be aired on BBC2 in November.
MATTHEW JUKES recommends some inexpensive French reds, including 2004 Chteau Roubaud, Tradition Costires de Nmes, France (6.99; Yapp Brothers).

From eco-wine to Frankenvine - by Joanne Simon

Welcome to South Africa, a place of great natural beauty, still teeming with unique and exciting wildlife in places, and home to the Cape Floral Kingdom, the smallest and richest of the earth's six great floral kingdoms.

Going for gold

There's a wintry chill in the air in the Cape, and winemakers are taking a well-earned break, hoping to reap the rewards of their hard work during previous vintages at the many competitions underway, both locally and abroad.

Getting it right

I've just about finished reading the new wine books that filled my Christmas stocking, but once again it was a funny little book already in my possession, first published in 1954, that afforded me the most amusement over the holidays.
In his foreword to this, the third (1966) edition of C de Bosdari's Wines of the Cape, PO Sauer describes it as the first book on South African wines which will help our wine-drinkers to understand what they are drinking, how it is made and why it is good'. (It is also good for us, claims the author: Wine-drinkers, as a rule, are very healthy people, the sort of people who shamelessly turn up to bury their teetotal friends')