Brand South Africa Blog

…is a good-looking, and sounding, new blog hosted by sommelier Roland Lundall. Features regular podcasts about the industry.  Listen to a podcast of Roland’s interview with Kanonkop’s world champion winemaker, Abrie Beeslaar, here.

Kanonkop winemaker Abrie Beeslaar was voted the International Winemaker of the Year 2008 at the International Wine and Spirits Competition’s (IWSC) gala award ceremony in London last night. Peter May has a nice blog entry on the winery and specifically its pinotages, here. Also on the wine front, Cape Business News reports that Mike Fisher, a founding partner of US investment banking firm Global Wine Partners, believes South Africa wines are set to take off in the US.