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Showing off the Veritas Double Gold wines in London
The latest Veritas Awards Double Gold annual tasting will be held at the highly acclaimed High Timber Restaurant on the banks of the River Thames in London on Monday 8 June 2026 in collaboration with Porex SA. This proud event will feature the finest wines from the 2025 showdown, including the overall winner – namely […]
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Higher quality standard for wine judging in South-Africa
The long-established examination for wine evaluation by aspiring wine judges in South Africa has been upgraded and will henceforth be presented by the SA National Wine Show Association (SANWSA) – a significant boost to refine and maintain judging standards in wine competitions. This wine industry organisation’s re-instatement of the Wine Evaluation Examination under the Veritas […]
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KWV The Mentors Perold 2022 – Duimpie Bayly Veritas Vertex winner 2025
Izéle van Blerk, Senior Red winemaker KWV with the 2025 Duimpie Bayly Veritas Vertex Award, with Minister John Steenhuisen en Christo Pienaar, Chairman Veritas. The winning wine with the Vertex trophy Premier Alan Winde, Justin Corrins, Anneke du Plessis, Marco Ventrella, Kobus Prins, Kobus vd Merwe, Oursula Lenee, Izéle van Blerk and Christo Pienaar (SANWSA) […]
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Veritas Living Legends Awards 2025
Wine Legends – Bennie Howard (Veritas), with two of the three Wine Legends who received their Scroll of honour at the Veritas Awards Dinner – Johan Malan and Michael Back with Christo Pienaar (Veritas Chairman) Charles Back was the third recipient, but apologised as he was unable to attend. The tradition of annually honouring a […]
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Glorious golden awards for KWV, Graham Beck and Cederberg Wines at Veritas
KWV’s clinched the top Veritas award, the Duimpie Bayly Vertex Trophy, for the second year in a row at the 35th Veritas Awards evening, with its masterful The Mentors Perold, while Graham Beck and Cederberg Wines also excelled with a haul of coveted double gold medals. The evening of exceptional achievements featured the KWV The […]
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Veritas Awards 2025 – Chance for the public to taste the best
Wine enthusiasts can look forward to experiencing the star-studded double gold and gold medal winning wines and brandies of the 2025 Veritas Awards at a series of tastings countrywide, presented by Deloitte at their various offices in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. These extraordinary wine tasting opportunities sponsored by Deloitte offer no less than 270 […]
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Emerging from quaint Kuruman as best new SA wine writer
The country’s best new wine writer for 2025 is Rethabile Kgatlhane, a Kuruman-based freelance author and CEO of the Tipsy Twenties Winery, a local boutique wine brand. Mr Kgatlhane was also recently selected by Veritas Awards media partner WineLand Media as a “30 Under 30” 2025 award winner, an annual awards competition that recognises promising […]
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Entries now open for Best New Wine Writer in SA
The 2025 SA New Wine Writer of the Year Competition for writers 35 years old or younger, is now open to entries. The organisers have decided to hold this competition earlier in the year, instead of towards the end of the year. The closing date is Monday 8 September 2025. This competition, run by the […]
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IT’S TIME FOR THE VERITAS 2025 ENTRIES
This year’s Veritas Awards entries have just opened – the country’s foremost and oldest wine competition for bottled wine – and winemakers are excited about the competition which they are looking forward to along with wine lovers countrywide. Participants in this year’s competition are now encouraged to enter via the on-line platform which is a […]
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VERITAS DOUBLE GOLD WINES ON SHOW AT LONDON WINE FAIR
The Veritas Awards are proud to announce that the annual tasting of the latest Veritas Double Gold winning wines will be held at the mammoth London Wine Fair (LWF) on 19 – 21 May in collaboration with Porex SA. The finest array of wines on display – from the 2024 showdown – will include the […]
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Best New SA Wine Writer announced
The country’s best new wine writer for 2024 is Skye Nolan from Brackenfell near Cape Town, assistant-winemaker and compliance manager at Bellevue Wine Estate, Stellenbosch, who also had work stints at four other Cape wineries, as well as doing wine educational and business courses at a youthful age. The runner-up is Alisa Knoblauch from Somerset […]
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