The story of South African wine starts in 1655 with a few scraggly vines of muscadel planted in the shadow of Table Mountain. At the time, the Cape of Good Hope (today’s Cape Town) was a bare ...

South Africa’s grape-growing history dates back more than 350 years, but its sparkling wine production is a mere half-century ...

South Africa's wine country begins, literally, in the leafy suburbs of Cape Town, where I headed clutching my annually updated wine bible, John Platter's "South African Wines 2000." ...

That's good news for South Africa, which is getting a boost in visibility from World Cup 2010 just as the country is polishing its reputation for an impressive range of wines that are long on ...

Jim Clarke's Picks: South African Blends These are among the country's most critically acclaimed, in-demand wines. Prices will vary by retailer and the state of purchase.

Last October, Ayanda erected a prefabricated shack made of corrugated zinc sheets nailed to a wooden frame on a hillside in South African wine country outside the town of Stellenbosch. The ...

All of which is to say that if your last taste of a South African wine was of a Pinotage, say 20 years ago (no shade on current versions of the country’s unique blend of Pinot Noir and Cinsault ...