TOP SCORES at South Africa’s 2024 Fine Wine Awards went to the Spier wine farm in Stellenbosch, for their white blend Frans K Smit 2018, and to the boutique wine cellar Hout Bay Vineyards for their Cap Classique sparkling wine, Klasiek by Catherine 2020. Both scored 96/100, with 21 wines rated 95 points – see below for all the trophy
Read moreWHERE TO EAT in the winelands of South Africa, at a winery, among the vines? Here are the best tables in the countryside when wine-routing in the Cape – all on farms associated with highly rated reds or whites, bubblies or desserts as recorded on Top Wine SA. Where indicated, the restaurants have earned particularly good reviews in the country’s restaurant guides Eat Out and/or Rossouw’s Restaurants,
Read moreNEDBANK’S presentation of American Express Platinum Fine Dining Awards to Waterkloof on the Sir Lowry’s Pass Road outside Somerset West and De Grendel on the Tygerberg Hill in Panorama/Durbanville brings the number of top SA wine farm restaurant laureates during the past year to around 20, i.e. including those that achieved top honours in the 2013 Eat Out Awards and/or Three Star ratings for
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