MICHAEL FRIDJHON: SA producers carry the flag high in Six Nations Wine Challenge
The Cape wine industry sits comfortably among the best in the world
16 October 2019 - 05:10
The French don't rush about constantly trying to remind everyone that they “make the best wines in the world”.
The assumption of vinous supremacy runs in the national DNA: the mere assertion of the seemingly self-evident would imply at least a momentary doubt. That they were trumped by California at the famous Judgement of Paris tasting in 1976 — and again 30 years later — hasn’t diminished that sense of superiority...
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