High accolades for local wine industry

Writer: Hedda Mittner.

Master of Wine and leading UK wine writer, Tim Atkin, recently released his eagerly-awaited South Africa 2020 Special Report, now in its eighth year and widely regarded as the most detailed and authoritative overview of South African wine. After having suffered great losses and hardship during the Covid-19 lockdown, Tim offers some encouraging words for the South African wine industry.

“Despite the well-publicised challenges it faces, South Africa is making the best wines in its history,” writes Tim. “Over the decade I’ve been writing these reports, it has been a delight to see the general improvements in quality and the tentative emergence of a South African fine wine sector, with bottles that are discussed, cellared, coveted, shared and sold at auction. Rather than just a few individuals, what we have now is a constellation shining bright above us in the firmament, made up of more than 100 winemaking stars.”

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