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Report #30
The Wines of South Africa

South Africa has been making world class wines for three hundred years. Today it makes some of the world's best Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Red Blends and, of course, Pinotage. In this report we examine the progress of South African wine over the past quarter century with special focus on the new winemakers that are refashioning the image and quality of South African wine.

Publication date: December 2011

Technical Support Team

IWR Technical Support Team

Technical Advisor:  Bruce W. Zoecklein
Professor and Enology Specialist, Division of Enology and Grape Chemistry, Food Science and Technology Dept., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

Wine Tasting Coordinator:  Roy Wagner
Roy has been an avid wine taster for thirty-five years. He lived in California during the seventies and experienced it's rise to international prominence. Now living in Virginia he sees it truly emerging as the "Napa of the East Coast". He has tasted wines from all over the world, but still prefers those from the United States.

He has been keeping "score" of the wines he has encountered for most of that time and created many of his own rating systems.  He is a firm believer that the "blind tasting" keeps the ratings and reviews  true to their inherent qualities.

He co-ordinates many of the i-WineReview tastings and also maintains the database that is used to search for wine reviews at the web site.

Web Master:  Brandt Wagner
A Computer based training developer for Dazzle Technologies, working as a freelance web master out of Brooklyn, NY.