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Our pick of exclusive events and experiences in South Africa’s wine country goes well beyond the bottle to open your mind and your palate.

After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, The L’ormarins Queen’s Plate has been renamed to the L’ormarins King’s Plate

The Franschhoek Cap Classique & Champagne Festival is back early December, following a two-year absence as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The submission of Cabinets response to the recommendations of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector is a firm and clear indication of the primacy of the rule of law and a demonstration of the democratic system at work...

Recently the world-renowned Time magazine ranked Franschhoek one of the World’s Greatest Places in 2022.

EFF members have gathered for a march to businessman Johan Rupert's wine farm in the Stellenbosch area to show its disdain for the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck 370 years ago, and the colonial legacies that launched the hefty portfolios of billionaires such as Rupert's.

Tim James: Three cheers for the Old Vines Project Share: Old-vine Chenin Blanc on the Paardeberg, Swartland. While much of the South African wine industry was whingeing and weeping on the international and local stages about its problems and opportunistically assigning too many of them to lockdown (see Edo Heyns’s very relevant comments), and incoherently trying to cope without the representative leadership that is so much needed (as Michael Fridjhon argues)  – all the time, a few grouping...

A connoisseur of wines. You’ll find them across the globe, with plenty in South Africa, because let’s face it, it’s tough not to love wine in a place that produces some of the best in the world. For the average oenophile, (or anyone who enjoys a glass of fine wine), travelling from wine farm to wine farm, overseas and locally, is definitely up there on their bucket list. To make sure that (once the world has this pandemic under control) you can plan the perfect getaway, Forbes rounded up...