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📣 Call for Entries: Prescient Fund Services Winter Series 2026 Entries are now open for three Category Reports this winter: 🍷 Pinotage 🍷 Signature Red Blends (freestyle) 🍷 Sweet Wine & Fortifieds 📅 Entries close: 3 June 📊 Results published: 23 June 🏆 Best wine in each category wins R10 000 shipping credit from Aspiring Couriers If you’re a producer, this is your moment - enter now: winemag.co.za/wine/industry-…

Why do some wineries get reviewed again and again while others never get tasted at all? Tim James provides a provocative take on how South African wine criticism really works: winemag.co.za/wine/opinion/t…

Are SA’s most exciting reds the ones ignoring Bordeaux altogether? @MaluLambert explores the phenomenon of blends that don't conform to any pre-existing convention: winemag.co.za/wine/opinion/m…

Bordeaux is ripping up vineyards as red wine demand collapses. The surprise saviour? Dry white Bordeaux reveals @gregsherwoodmw winemag.co.za/wine/opinion/g…

End of an era at Graham Beck: Pieter Ferreira exits after 35 years. Successor Piere de Klerk inherits a sparkling powerhouse. Plus: new reviews up to 96 points (subscribe to read): winemag.co.za/wine/review/gr…

Storm new releases reviewed (subscribe to read): winemag.co.za/wine/review/st…

Which producers should absolutely enter this year’s Prescient Fund Services Sweet Wine & Fortifieds Report? Rules and entry form here: winemag.co.za/wine/industry-…

Which producers should absolutely enter this year’s Prescient Fund Services Signature Red Blend Report? Rules and entry form here: winemag.co.za/wine/industry-…

Which producers should absolutely enter this year’s Prescient Fund Services Pinotage Report? Rules and entry form here: winemag.co.za/wine/industry-…

Editorial: Is South African wine losing faith in itself? winemag.co.za/wine/opinion/e…

Welbedacht’s Skoolblok Steen 2025 placed in the Top 10 of the Prescient Fund Services Chenin Blanc Report 2026 with a score of 93. Made by Christiaan Nigrini who was Top 10 in the iTOO Next Gen Awards with the same wine. [SPONSORED]

South Africa's latest young winemaking stars, as recognised by @Winemag on their New Generation Awards. outofthepress.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/a-n…

Pinotage. Signature Red Blends (freestyle). Sweet & Fortified. Entries for the Prescient Fund Services Winter Series are now open and early submissions are already landing. Rules and entry form here: winemag.co.za/wine/industry-…

Richard Schroeder of Groot Phesantekraal Wines is putting Durbanville Chenin Blanc on the map. Runner-up in the 2026 iTOO Next Generation Awards, with 94 & 93-point Anna de Koning Chenin 2024/25. Cool-climate precision, serious intent. [SPONSORED] #CheninBlanc #DurbanvilleWine

Tim James fears Cape Wine may be splitting in two. Lean hipster brilliance vs old-school charm. Scions of Sinai thrills & divides, while Simonsig quietly overdelivers. Are we ignoring the good stuff? winemag.co.za/wine/opinion/t…