KWV CHIEF VITICULTURIST, MARCO VENTRELLA, NAMED “VITICULTURIST OF THE YEAR” BY TIM ATKIN MW…
KWV Chief Viticulturist Marco Ventrella, announced as Viticulturist of the Year in the Tim Atkins South Africa Wine Report 2021....
The Spice Route Obscura White 2019, a ZA Confidential podcast…
The Spice Route Obscura White 2019, is one of a trio of wines made in the centuries old Georgian tradition, using Qvevris...
Advent Calendar 2019, Spice Route Obscura Qvevri Wines, White & Red 2019, a podcast…
Spice Route takes on an 8,000 year Georgian winemaking tradition with their Obscura Qvevri Wines, two blends, a white and a red from the 2019 vintage...
Advent Calendar #18 wine – Fairview Grenache 2015 Old Piekenierskloof Bush Vines…
Using a wine grapes from 1973 plantings in the Piekenierskloof Mountains, Anthony de Jager's Fairview Grenache 2015 is my Advent Calendar #18 wine...
Fairview Shiraz 2014 & Alida Ryder’s Baked Gnocchi with Bacon, Tomato & Mozzarella – 16.06.2017
Fairview Shiraz 2014 When a wine you truly like does well for the umpteenth in a national competition. Two Fairview Wines are the most recent award winners in the 2017 Shiraz SA Wine Challenge. At the end of May, Fairview again proved its prowess in the cultivation and winemaking of this popular red wine grape
Fairview takes top honours at the 2017 National Wine Challenge
The 2017 National Wine Challenge winners were announced on 25 April 2017 and Fairview Wine and Cheese Estate in Paarl was named a Vineyard Consistency Award winner, garnering over 10 top accolades this year. In addition, Fairview took joint second place overall across the entire spectrum of categories and wines. Fairview Wine & Cheese Estate
Spice Route Sauvignon Blanc – with my deconstructed Sushi
Spice Route Sauvignon Blanc Charles Back is one of the leaders in the ‘new age of the Swartland’ from the mid 1990s when he purchased a tobacco farm, Klein Amoskuil. Close to Paarl, Darling and Malmesbury, it was found to have the oldest Sauvignon Blanc vineyard in the country. I have visited there and it
Fairview Stok by Paaltjie Grenache 2014 & Lizet Hartley’s 5 Spice Pork Spare Ribs – 07.04.2017
Fairview Stok by Paaltjie Grenache 2014 I have known Fairview for almost 40 years, from the earliest of days when Cyril Back bottled his own wines, held the first wine auction ever, and Beryl Back sold the wines from the tasting room and packed eggs in the room next door. Charles & Cyril Back, way