This week Roland and Tessa taste a brilliant St Joseph, and one of South Africa’s newest wine-maker’s wines that could be the biggest bargain you will find this year. If you are looking to buy the St Joseph send Roland a mail and he’ll sort you out, or if you want to hook yourself up [...]

Last week on Human Rights day, Roland climbed Table Mountain with three South African Bordeaux styled blends to see if there was any difference in their taste on top of the mountain and down at the beach. The wines tasted were the Mulderbosch Faithful Hound 2009 R115 Hillcrest Horfels 2009 R276 Morgenster Lourens River R143 [...]

After successful tastings in JHB and CT (see the video and write-up on WINE CELLAR PLUS), the classical house of Trimbach once again showed its class. Their unchanged history of producing bone-dry, moderate alcohol wines from their own, old vines consistently produces benchmark Alsace. Whilst the 2008s had razor-like acidity, the 2009s are far more [...]

‘Keermont Vineyards is a bright star on the horizon‘ says Neal Martin from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, awarding some of the highest scores ever for a South African winery. Tucked away high up in the Helderberg underneath de Trafford, the low yielding Keermont vines produce wines of sheer elegance and character. The Red Blend is [...]

This is a circus blend, an unconventional fusion of 5 cultivars with the 2011 bringing in a 6th. It seems as though Peter Finlayson’s ultimate talent lies in blending judging from the ageability of the Blanc de Mer and success of the Hannibal red blend. Riesling provides the backbone, with the other varieties adding character [...]

After drinking a bottle of the 1995 Jamet at Burrata (new Restaurant at the Old Buiscut Mill) last week, I was reminded of this tasting we setup late last year. On this occasion the 1995 was stupendous and one of the greatest wines I have had this year and would award it 18+/20. Its lightness, [...]

Check out this article from The Drinks Business on Parker’s influence. We recently drank a bottle of the 2000 Pavie and it certainly wasn’t OTT! Watch out for the Pavie 2000 on Wine on the Week! See here for the Parker note and prices

How will a wine age? Learning more and more about wine I realise ageing is not a function of sugar, tannin, acid or even weight. But rather, it’s a function of balance. And if the wine is not balanced in its youth it will unlikely mature with grace and develop extra character. Of the components, [...]

Check out this little video of the international Riesling tasting held recently at Wine Cellar To buy these wines send us a mail, and say you came from Wine Cellar Plus! Here’s the full write up: Is the Riesling revival finally here? This is a review of a tasting of a whole series of Rieslings spanning [...]

This week Roland gets prepared for a Riesling tasting with a Trimbach Riesling 2009 and Tessa goes left of field with a Rose from grapes produced in the newly designated ward of Malgas, the Sijnn 2010. They also nailed a early days M-net vibe really well. Especially the ending.     To buy either of these [...]