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Visitors to Cape Town may get a slight surprise the first time they hear the Noon Gun firing at Lion Battery on Signal Hill. But they soon find, like most Capetonians, the boom at 12 o’clock six days a week to be reassuring that all is well in Cape Town. The tradition goes back to [...]
Read More: New vintages from Flagstone wines pay tribute to Cape Town’s maritime history
From over the barrels comes the evocative and unmistakable sound of Scotland. Winemaker Bruce Jack is overseeing the tradition of playing bagpipe music to his wine.
Ever since Flagstone started crafting wine in 1999 Hugh Veitch, a top bagpiper with the Cape Town Highlanders, has played to Bruce’s barrels four or five times a year. And [...]
Read More: Music for better mouth feel: Flagstone grapes soothed by bagpipe tradition
The John Platter South African Wine Guide is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and authoritative chronicle of who’s who and what’s what in South African wine country. Every year wine lovers pore over the latest edition to see how their favourite libations have been ranked. The good news is that Fish Hoek and Flagstone have both [...]
Read More: 2009 John Platter Wine Guide
Flagstone Wines earn top marks
Last week saw the launch of Flagstone Winery’s BEE initiative, a new range called Ses’fikile – 100% black and female owned, to the local trade and media.
Ses’fikile, which means ‘we have arrived’ in isiXhosa, is owned by four black women, three of whom are school teachers, namely Nondumiso Pikashe, Jackie Mayo, Nomvuyo Xaliphi and Phelela [...]
Read More: Flagstone Winery announces BEE partnership
Wine is the easy choice when it comes to buying a gift. There is a perfect fit for even the most sophisticated palate and it can be as cheap or expensive a gift as you would want to make it!
Choosing which wine to buy is a little more challenging. How do you choose the perfect [...]
Read More: Wine as a gift
[London, 8 October 2007] Constellation Brands Inc. the world’s largest wine company, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Flagstone Winery. Once completed this will be one of the most significant investments into the South African wine industry by a global wine company. The announcement was made today in London at the Wines of [...]
Read More: Constellation Brands signs letter of intent to puchase SA’s Flagstone Winery
Michael Fridjohn, 18 September 2006
MORE than a decade into a postapartheid democratic era, the Cape wine
industry is battling with transformation and empowerment issues. At one
level this is hardly surprising. Many less complex sectors of the economy
have failed to come up with a perfect paradigm.
Perhaps more important, wine – insofar as it is part of the [...]
Read More: Ses’fikile Launch
Towards a dry, white sensation
Some top-end white blends intrigued Melvyn Minnaar at a recent tasting
www.grape.co.za
There is something deliciously egalitarian to the thought, neatly
accentuated by Dave Hughes, that both bottom-end plonk and the array of
expensive try-to-be icon whites offered at the tasting in question here, are
made by adding together wines from different grapes.
That thought, cutely tickled [...]
Read More: Views & Tastes
By Donald Paul, Business Day Weekender
The restaurant world is a cut-throat business but, as DONALD PAUL discovered at a farewell feast for one of SA’s finest, there is honour among chefs.
WHEN chef Graeme Shapiro opened The Restaurant in Somerset Road, on the borderline between Cape Town’s mundane Green Point and trendy De Waterkant, there were [...]
Read More: How chefs say cheers to one of their own
Since the Second World War global agriculture has without malicious intent embarked on a self-destructive path of unbalanced chemical fertilisation. It’s a long, tortuous story that continues to leave farmers underpaid and undervalued. This trajectory has lead to unhealthy, unbalanced soil that cannot fully hope to support the plants and crops swaying in the wind [...]
Read More: What our Biodiversity message means to a winemaker
August 2006, Tutored by Wine Educator – Neil Courtier.
www.grapesense.com
Flagstone ‘Noon Gun’ White Blend 2005 – Viewed as offering brilliant value
for money.
Flagstone ‘Free Run’ Sauvignon Blanc 2005 – Loire-like, with grapefruit
characteristics & racy acidity.
Jack & Knox ‘Frostline’ Riesling 2005 – A real point of difference here!
Jack & Knox – ‘Green on Green’ Semillon 2004 – [...]
Read More: Grape Sense (UK) Tasting
Wine Spectator Online
Stirring the Lees with James Molesworth
July 21, 2006
I sat down with Bruce Jack the other day, to get caught up on things in South Africa. Jack, 36, is the owner and winemaker at Flagstone winery, and he’s what I consider a typical South African vintner: quality oriented, producing a moderate volume (about 70,000 [...]
Read More: A Sit Down With South African Vintner Bruce Jack..
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