Kaapse Vonkel News Today

Michael Olivier is one of South Africa’s leading experts on wine. Read his review of the Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel Brut 2021.

They’re a ‘tough old bunch’ who don’t hand out awards easily, which is why the wines that impressed most at the Investec Trophy Wine Show – including sauvignon blanc, sémillon, shiraz, chenin and some diverse varieties – were described as exciting, refreshing and refined.

The Stellenbosch Wine Route is a world famous tourist attraction. The RoadTrip team tracks its history in two vehicles from two very different automotive eras.

Mexican meets Japanese? It works, somehow, at this fusion newbie. Tom is pleasantly surprised

This year the South African wine industry celebrates the 50 anniversary of the first harvest of grapes for the Cap Classique category.

Simonsig Wine Estate is synonymous with the history of the South African wine industry, the Stellenbosch wine region, and the Malan family name. In this episode of Carrie’s Corner, wine connoisseur Carrie Adams speaks to Johan Malan – the receipt of The 40th Diners Club Winemaker of the Year Award for 2020. His father, Frans Malan, produced the first bottle of the much-loved Kaapse Vonkel – one his many pioneering approaches to the South African wine industry. Johan tells the story of his...

  We take so much for granted these days – rotisserie chickens in the supermarket, avos and strawberries all year round (even if it goes against nature but we pay for the privilege anyway), not running out of toilet paper, road signs directing us to wine farms…  None of this was always the case; when Stellenbosch Wine Routes was established in 1971, those familiar brown and white signs with the farms’ names pointing us to the entrances – and upon which we partly rely, along with GPS a...