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Bottling 3 new wines, vineyard tours, rock star...

2010 started with a bang. Week 1 of the year went as follows: Monday a friend of mine, Albert, and myself met early morning and headed off to the Swartland to rack 2...

The cost of making wine

One of the hottest discussion topics around wine is pricing. Everyone normally has the same question. If I am able to buy a red wine for R25 a bottle, am...

EPI-NEWS December 2009

Surfs up, and nothing is down for Pieter Walser! Another one of the organisation’s heroes is Pieter Walser – a winemaker and businessman with brilliant sales strategies and mottos. Pieter...

Shopping with a difference

Dankie! Ek’s bly ek was so na aan die kol met baie kommentaar. Ek dink R52 is ‘n goeie prys – dit is ‘n heerlike wyn! Chocolate/berrie, dis mos wyn!...

Devilishly gorgeous - and that's not just the band

South African band The Parlotones have just embarked on another world tour but they leave local fans well catered for. This week the group’s own label wine, Giant Mistake, became...

The Parlotones put Giant Mistake in a bottle

It seems that the Parlotones, currently featured as one of Glasswerk’s gigs of the week, are set to launch their own wine.  According to BLANKbottle, a South African website, the...