The country’s wine industry is only just getting back on its feet after South Africa’s incredibly challenging Covid restrictions that saw it ban all alcohol sales and exports, so the easiest thing we can do to support them is to buy their wine.
Cabernet sauvignon is the most widely planted red wine grape, chenin blanc the white, and they range from the dry and simple or complex and layered, to succulent and sweet.
South Africa may be best known for its pinotage, but modern production now has a focus on sustainability and centres around French grape varieties.
Despite these excellent conditions for ripening grapes while retaining freshness, the area (and South Africa as a whole) got into its wine stride only in the past few decades.
While pinotage is still made in South Africa (it dips in and out of fashion), most of the nation’s production these days focuses on French grape varieties.
