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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
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
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
by Bernard Mocke
Bernard Mocke interned at Flagstone this year and has written a fun piece, which we thought we would share on the blog.
Read More: The observations of a Fly on the Wall
The annual mid-year Flagstone sale takes place at the winery in Somerset West on Saturday 13 June. There are some huge bargains waiting to be taken advantage of across the range of wines, from Kumala and Fish Hoek at R10 to R15 a bottle, all the way up to Ses’fikile and Fiona at R35 to [...]
Read More: Massive Flagstone Wine Sale
Bruce has a piece in the latest issue of Personal Finance where he discusses the prospects for this year’s vintage, as well as the winemaker’s annual ‘dance to the symphony of Cape weather.’
You can download the article here.
Read More: Bruce Jack’s Liquid Assets Column from Personal Finance
Some fun pics from the recent winery teambuilding event…
Read More: CWSA 2009 Harvest Teambuilding
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
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
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In July 2009 we moved our Tasting Room to the Doornbosch Centre in Strand Road, Stellenbosch
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