It was one of those days when the Cape feels like the most beautiful place on earth. The sky was a cloudless aquamarine, the outline of...

On the 3rd of December Blake Chetty of Royal Oaks wines came and presented the wines of Avondale to us. It has been almost two years...

On the 26th of November we tasted the wines of Strandveld, with the lovely Sunette Du Rand Stanton presenting. Sunette is a good friend...

On the 19th of November, Mario Monteiro brought the wines of the Mellish Family Vineyards to us. This is the first time many of us have...

On the 12th of November Judith Lee presented the wines of Van Loveren’s Prestige range, Christiena Trousseau, plus a few other great...

On the 5th of November Melanie Snoek presented the wines of Kranskop to us. This is a first time for us at Vats, and it was really a...

On the 29th of October our old friend Jeremy Borg of Painted Wolf came to present his wines to us. He came with a show case of his top...

On the 15th of October Oliver Wright, presented a few of the wines of Bon Courage to us. This was Oliver’s first tasting, that he...

On the 1st of October Anri Bester Gerber and Eugene Joubert of Liquid Gauteng brought Trevor DeRuisé of Lost Boys wines, to present his...

On the 17th of September Andrew Lombard returned and presented his Brandevlei Cellars Reserve range and a couple of new Sparkling wines...

On the 10th of September we tasted a few of the MCC’s from Graham Beck. The tasting was supposed to be presented by Mandla Patson...

On the 3rd of September we decided to do a tasting of a wine area, that we haven’t looked at in a while, Calitzdorp. Not since Leslie...

On the 27th of August I had a cancellation, so thought that it was long overdue that we have a look at the new range of Bruce Jack wines....

On the 20th of August Lieza van der Heever (van der Merwe) from Merwida came to present her wines to us. It is always great to have...

On the 13th of August we looked at cultivar Cabernet Franc, mostly in the fabled land of Cabernet Sauvignon greatness, namely...

On the 6th of August Anri Bester Gerber presented the wines of Wildekrans to us. Anri’s tastings are always brilliant, filled with...

On the 30th of July Chris Milne, presented a tasting entitled, “Chris’s Incredible Value Reds”. In this tasting he brought a couple of...

On the 23rd of July we tasted the Cinsault\Cinsaut. We wanted to see if Cinsault should be made as a single cultivar or should it just...

On the 23rd of July Charmaine Cockhead came and presented her “Bastille Day” tasting of French wines to us. We love having Charmaine at...

Recording my podcast with Pieter Walser of BLANKbottle recently got me thinking about stories. Pieter’s wines all have a tale to tell....