Pioneering Elgin producer Paul Clüver Family Wines confirmed its reputation as one of South Africa's leading Chardonnay producers in winning two trophies at this year's prestigious Trophy Wine Show with the Paul Clüver Estate Chardonnay 2020.
The South African Chardonnay Forum has been re-launched under chairmanship of Johann de Wet, CEO of De Wetshof Estate. In a Q&A he outlines the objectives and flies the flag for Cape Chardonnay.
The Gold medals went to the De Wetshof Lesca 2020 - labelled 'Finesse' in South Africa - and to the Bateleur Chardonnay 2018.
While the usual harvest reports on vintage 2021 have been flying around since March, the Chardonnay Forum recently gathered at Rupert&Rothschild to assess the quality of this year's young Chardonnay wines.
The 2021 European wine awards season kicked-off extraordinarily well for De Wetshof Estate in Robertson with three of its Chardonnays raking in four golden awards at two auspicious wine shows.
As a retiree and without wife, woman or life-partner, I am less familiar with the term "tension" than Ace Magashule is with the words "admit" or "truth". Yet, tension continues to be used when describing one of the finer and wondrous features of life. Namely wine.