The Veritas Awards are proud to announce that the tasting of Veritas Double Gold winning wines from the 2023 competition will be held in London on Tuesday 9 April in collaboration with Porex SA. The finest array of wines on display will include the overall Vertex Winner of the Show – namely the Duimpie Bayly Vertex Trophy Winner in the form of the 2019 Benguela Cove Joie de Vivre Cap Classique. The Veritas tastings, originally launched to great acclaim in London in 2019 as a ground-breaking wine country initiative, were briefly interrupted by Covid and are aimed at highlighting the internatio ..read more

The country’s best new wine writer for 2023 is Margeaux Goosen, who has just completed a stint as winemaking assistant at a boutique winery in Baden, Germany, while the runner-up is Jenna Higgins, newly appointed head winemaker at Wolvenhoek in Wellington and the best blog award went to Clint van Heerden, a chartered accountant and wine lover. All three winners hail from Stellenbosch, where Margeaux Goosen and Jenna Higgins obtained BSc degrees in molecular biology and biotechnology (Honours) and viticulture and oenology from Stellenbosch University. Clint van Heerden has completed the Certifi ..read more

Exactly ten years after the establishment of the wine estate Benguela Cove near Hermanus, it now triumphed by taking the standout Vertex award among 1 247 selected entries at the 2023 Veritas Awards with its 2019 Joie de Vivre Cap Classique. Not only did this flagship of three MCC styles from Benguela Cove Wine Estate take home the Duimpie Bayly Veritas Vertex Award for the overall champion wine, it also clinched the Best Achiever award for cellars with 10 or fewer entries and an impressive haul of three Double Gold and two Gold medals in the country’s foremost wine competition, know ..read more

The tradition of annually honouring a handful of industry leaders was continued at this year’s 33rd Veritas Awards ceremony, known for many years as the Oscars of the Wine Industry, on Friday 13 October. This award, instituted by the Veritas Awards in 2009, serves as recognition for exemplary service to the industry over the years – acknowledging their commitment and paying homage to them for remarkable achievements.  Thereby, six luminaries received the 2023 Legends Scroll of Honour for their dedication to and enthusiasm and passion for the domestic wine and brandy industries.  GARY ..read more

Wine enthusiasts can look forward to experiencing the star-studded Veritas Double Gold and Gold Medal winning wines and brandies of the 2023 Awards at a series of tastings countrywide, presented by Deloitte at their various offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. Moreover, wine lovers will again be able to use the VinoVeritas by CTP app at the public tastings, developed by CTP/SA Litho three years ago to order the Double Gold and Gold winners as they taste during the evening, for free delivery by Getwine on their own doorstep. The App can be downloaded on the Android and Google platform ..read more

The finest palates of international and local judges will evaluate this year’s entries for the Veritas Awards – for many years seen as a highly important week of South African wine and brandy judging in the oldest and most respected show for these market-ready products since its inception in 1991. Overseas Judges Sponsored The regular use of accomplished overseas judges by Veritas has been made possible thanks to a partnership with Dry Ice International, which has agreed to bring the group of highly respected judges to South Africa. Dry Ice International, led by CEO Deon Roux, is the larg ..read more

The country’s best wine writer for 2022 is Shandré van der Merwe, tasting room Manager at De Wet Cellar outside Worcester, while the runner-up is Petri de Beer, until recently senior winemaker at Longridge Winery near Somerset West. The results of this competition, now in its tenth year, were announced at a function at the Lanzerac Hotel, Stellenbosch, where Ms Van der Merwe and Mr De Beer respectively bagged R15 000 and R7 500 for their winning entries out of five in total. The SA Wine Writer of the Year is open for writers 35 years old or younger and presented by the South African Natio ..read more

The Veritas Vertex Award, named after wine industry legend Duimpie Bayly, crowns the overall winner at Veritas, the country’s longest running and most prestigious wine competition. The Tokara Reserve Collection Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 was the sixth receiver of the Duimpie Bayly Vertex Award since its inception in 2017. It makes the score even for red and white wine winners, namely three each, that have won the highly sought-after hand-grafted glass trophy. When GT and Anne-Marie Ferreira purchased their farm on the slopes of the Simonsberg in 1994, all they had in mind was to build a family ho ..read more

The 2022 SA Wine Writer of the Year Competition for writers 35 years old or younger, is now open to entries. This competition of the South African National Wine Show Association (SANWSA) – which also runs the Veritas Awards among others – is in its tenth year and aims to identify smart new voices in the wine industry. The competition this year comprises two categories: one for wine-related articles and one for blogs. The respective winners will each receive prize money of R2 500, while the overall winner will pocket R15 000. “We are delighted that the competition continues to find ne ..read more

Veritas Living Legends Awards 2022 The tradition of annually honouring a handful of industry leaders was continued at this year’s 32nd Veritas Awards ceremony, known for many years as the Oscars of the Wine Industry, on Saturday 08 October. This award, instituted by the Veritas Awards in 2009, serves as recognition for exemplary service to the industry over the years – acknowledging their commitment and paying homage for remarkable achievements.  Thereby, seven luminaries received the 2022 Living Legends Scroll of Honour for their dedication to and enthusiasm and passion for the dome ..read more