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September 25th, 2009 posted by Angela Aschmann
Competition from 1 501 wines, from 262 other wine producers was not enough to stop Flagstone scooping several prestigious prizes at the 2009 Michelangelo International Wine Awards, which are widely regarded as among the most credible awards in the country.
An international panel of 15 judges – including top South African wine writer Christine Rudman – [...]
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September 18th, 2009 posted by Bruce Jack
The winemaking team at Flagstone are celebrating their huge haul of trophy silverware at both the Stellenbosch and the South African National Young Wine Shows. At the Stellenbosch ward show, the team — led by Gerhard Swart – walked away with five class trophies, including Overall Champion White Wine for their unwooded Semillon (a wine destined for Flagstone Two Roads white blend) and the Overall Champion Red Wine for their wooded Pinotage, a wine destined to be the next award-winning Flagstone Writer’s Block Pinotage.
Read More: Flagstone Shines at the Stellenbosch & South African National Wine Show Awards Under Leadership of Winemaker Gerhard Swart
September 18th, 2009 posted by Bruce Jack
Obviously, the braai has played a central role in our advancement as a species. The oldest archaeological evidence of the braai was discovered at the Sterkfontein Caves in the north of our country and is about one million years old. So South Africans invented the braai.
But that’s only partially accurate. As all human beings originated [...]
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September 1st, 2009 posted by Alison Pearce
In this short video Michael Olivier tastes one of Bruce’s entries for this year’s Cape Winemakers Guild auction: The Secret Handshake 2005.
Read More: Michael Olivier features Bruce’s Secret Handshake on his ‘Minute of Wine’
