Cellar palate is that insidious condition when you think your own wine is great - because that's all you drink. Reality can be a little different. Cellar palate is that insidious condition when you think your own wine is great - because that's all you drink. Reality can be a little different.It's an undisputed fact that the Cape makes the best SA wine. But as KWV head of strategy Hymli Krige and judge at the Concours Mondial found out in Bordeaux earlier this year, the image of SA wine is far from stellar. When her jury encountered a particularly bad sample in their blind tastings, it would be described as "typically SA" when it was actually a red from French Polynesia.The Concours Mondial is one of a handful of foreign wine shows used by producers for calibration and the marketing appeal of gold stickers attached to bottles on supermarket shelves. This year 230 judges rated more than 6000 wines and spirits from French Polynesia (three wines entered, no awards) and Uruguay (two ...
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