Flagstone is a small winery with a big to-do list. There's lots happening, so much in fact that we often don't have time to write about it… but we’re going to make every effort to stay in touch with our new blog. Feel free to subscribe via email on the right hand side of the page, or if you'd prefer RSS, there's a subscription link above.
Bruce and Flagstone will be teaming up with Nobu at the One & Only for a wine and dine evening on 1 September. Seven courses of the finest Japanese fusion cuisine will be served with Bruce handling the wine pairing. These will include Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeno canapés on arrival and Steamed Japanese Halibut [...]
Read More: Nobu Wine & Dine Evening @ The One & Only Cape Town, 1 September
Daily Telegraph wine correspondent Jonathan Ray has a feature on South African wine in the context of the braai, inspired by the Wines of South Africa (WoSA) stand at this year’s London International Wine & Spirit Fair. The article features quotes from Bruce on how to tackle the art of pairing wine with the various [...]
Read More: Jonathan Ray features Flagstone and Bruce in the Daily Telegraph
A new seal will appear on compliant South African wine bottles as from the 2010 harvest. Watch the video below for insight into what the seal guarantees in terms of the wine inside the bottle.
Read More: New Bottle Seal From Wine and Spirit Board of South Africa
Wines of South Africa (WOSA) have produced a 2 minute wine and soccer animated soccer video and we are more than happy to oblige their request to “show it on the website and blog about it.”
Read More: Wines of South Africa Soccer Video
Download the form to protest the government’s efforts to turn the Cape Winelands into the Cape Minelands here. We only have until tomorrow to offer concrete reasons for prospecting not to go ahead.
Any valid reason (cultural heritage, job losses, environmental, loss of business if a farms’ production area is disturbed etc) is worth putting down. [...]
Read More: Stop Mining in the Winelands
Wrinkles. Scare-etched by our southern sun into the faces of real fishermen, each millimetre representing another high-seas adventure thriller – around our Cape of Storms.
There’s an old guy, long past hauling the line himself, who watches the fish come into Kalk Bay Harbour. His name is Fred. Fred sells bait, sells fish, sells stories. Sometimes [...]
Read More: Kalk Bay Harbour Wall
October has brought with it more complimentary press coverage from British wine lovers. Olly Smith of the Mail On Sunday and Sam Wylie-Harris both devoted column inches to recommending Flagstone this month.
Read More: Flagstone Vintages Elicit More Praise From The UK Press
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 – [...]
Read More: Flagstone wins big at 2009 Michelangelo International Wine Awards
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.
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 [...]
Read More: The Braai
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’
It’s true that you can make money more easily from the wine industry than in the wine industry. Bottle suppliers, distributors, exporters, traders, machinery and engineering suppliers, overseas agents, retailers… the list goes on and on.
Read More: How wine’s value can grow
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In July 2009 we moved our Tasting Room to the Doornbosch Centre in Strand Road, Stellenbosch
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