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Latest news
South Africa moved to level 4 but alcohol sales still not permitted but exports allowed
Alcohol sales are still prohibited under level 4 lockdown restrictions but many Wine Estates were relieved that the ban on exports has been lifted.
Cape Winelands municipality a Covid-19 hot spot
Witzenberg municipality, a rural area with a large community of seasonal farmworkers, became a Covid-19 hot spot, with 100 new cases being reported on Tuesday. The Witzenberg municipality comprises the five towns of Ceres, Tulbagh, Wolseley, Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfred Hamlet. The Cape Town metropolitan area aside, this is five times as many coronavirus cases as any other municipality in the province.
WIne Estates launch feeding projects
It is amazing how our communities are pulling together and our WIne Estates are taking the lead in providing food to communities.
A big shout out to Spier for their great project
The Lynedoch Valley Collaborative, a partnership between Spier and the Sustainability Institute (SI), has been providing weekly food, hygiene and education relief packs to almost 400 vulnerable families in the Lynedoch Valley (where both Spier and the SI are located) every week since the start of lockdown. Read more here
Online specials are the flavour of the month
Wine Producers are currently doing what they can to stimulate sales by providing lockdown specials. Customers are invited to order now and delivery will take place after the lockdown ends. Producers are invited to post their lockdown specials in our Visit the Winelands Facebook Group – We will share and feature as many of those that we can.
Join the Visit The Winelands group here
Online wine tastings
Online wine tastings have exploded and Facebook and Instagram seems to be the platforms of choice. – We expect to see much more of these in the coming weeks.
One of the first people who started this is Dr. Peter from the Cape Winelovers Society, he has been doing a tasting every evening at 6pm since the lockdown started.
Join him here for his next tasting here
KWV is delighted to announce that Justin Corrans has been appointed as KWV Chief Winemaker effective 1 June 2020.
He joins KWV from Mountain Ridge Wines where he led the winemaking team for three years, adding to his experience at Distell and Longridge Winery. Justin holds an Honours degree in Wine Biotechnology bolstered by more than two decades worth of experience, including winemaking consultancy in France, USA, Australia and New Zealand. In his new role, Justin will direct and oversee all winemaking operations, upholding KWV’s reputation for producing wines of exceptional quality. Read more here
The About The Winelands Shows this past week
About The Winelands welcomes wine lover and blogger, Johann Crafford of Planet Wine.
Johann Crafford invites you to share his passion of all the good things in life… wine, food and travel. Cheers to wine’s wonderful journey of discovery! Listen to About The Winelands with Johann Crafford and read more here
About The Winelands welcomes Ilse Ruthford, Managing Director of Companiesdrift
A modern temperature controlled and secure storage facility that has storage capacity for 2.5 million bottles of wine. Ilse is a success story of persistence and love of the wine industry. Listen to About The Winelands with Ilse Ruthford below and read more here
About The Winelands welcomes Liam Tomlin, award-winning Chef and Founder of Chefs Warehouse, Cape Town.
Liam started his cheffing career at the tender age of 14 in Dublin, Ireland and since then he has travelled the globe, opened restaurants, does consultancy work, publishes cookbooks and wins numerous prestigious international awards. Listen to About The Winelands with Liam Tomlin below and read more here
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Discovered by our Winelands Spy…
Our winelands spy has not travelled for a while so had to be looking for something online. Our discovery this week:
Ridgeback Wines – Read more here and watch video below!
Wine quote of the week
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