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PRE RELEASE – Sigh of Relief 2015, Helderberg C...

This is the 10 day pre-release of Sigh of Relief 2015, a Cabernet Franc from the Helderberg. Cabernet Franc is a very new favourite of mine. I’ve been working with...

BLANKBOTTLE in the Daily Telegraph – LONDON by ...

Meet the man making mind-bending wine. If you worked at the BBC in the late Nineties, South African Pieter Walser may owe you an apology. After a friend wrote his...

Tim Atkin SA wine report 2016

I’ve just returned from a two week marketing trip to Sweden, UK and Ireland where exports are picking up nicely. I’ve come to realise that I need to be a...

London UK – Fiona Beckett's Wine of the week – ...

One of the most original and inventive wine producers I’ve come across is Pieter Walser of Blankbottle in Stellenbosch, South Africa but this is his zaniest concept yet. It’s a...

BLANKBOTTLE NOMINATED FOR A LOERIE DESIGN AWARD

Category: Packaging and Industrial design  OK, back from the Loeries Awards ceremony in Durban… Goodness what an experience! Over 2000 people attended the first Awards night, 350 agencies entered with...

Loerie design awards - BLANKBOTTLE in top 15 fo...

Woohoo!!! Took a shot in the dark 3 months ago and entered our wines (a range of 18 wines) for the Loeries Design Awards in the Packaging and Industrial Design...