UK wine blogger Jamie Goode took a flip in a helicopter over Bordeaux last week. He shot a short video from the air. I looked at it and thought: What a non-starter (against the Cape winelands), as far as the natural beauty is concerned. 

Take a look and see if you can find anything beautiful about the place.

(I know, I know…a Bordeaux is for drinking, not for looking at.)

UK wine journalist Jamie Goode doesn’t write about South African wine often. When he does, he picks the “difficult” topics. Such as Pinotage and “burnt rubber”. [Read on]

South African winemakers put in a respectable showing against the “best of the rest” at the 8th MUNDUSVini International Wine Awards held in Germany from 29/8/2008 to 7/9/2008. Depending on how one looks at the results, one could even say South Africa and France were the star performers of the global wine competition. [Read on]