With their creations safely in barrel after the 2016 harvest, excitement is mounting amongst second-year Cape Winemakers Guild Protégés as the dream of making their first wines becomes a reality. ... More
Prestigious Cape Winemakers Guild (CWG) has announced a new chair, Miles Mossop, and two new members, Sebastian Beaumont and Carl van der Merwe. ... More
Second-year interns of the Cape Winemakers Guild Oenology Protégé Programme are being supported in the crafting of their own wines by the renewal for the 5th consecutive year of a barrel sponsorship by Cape Cooperage Group (CCG). ... More
The Cape Winemakers Guild Protégé Programme, a mentorship scheme with the goal of effecting transformation in the wine industry, has enrolled its first viticulture intern alongside three new winemaking protégés for 2015. ... More
Gordon Newton Johnson, multi-five-star-awarded winemaker in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley near Hermanus, has become the 46th member to be inducted into the Cape Winemakers Guild. ... More
The Cape Winemakers Guild (CWG) has become involved in the formal training of winery staff to expand current programmes and facilitate a national qualification. ... More
Four wine students at Elsenburg Agricultural College - Kiara Scott, Clayton Christians, Danielle Jacobs and Mahalia Matshete – have been awarded study bursaries by the Cape Winemakers Guild. ... More
A Paarl cooperage’s sponsorship of oak barrels for apprentice winemakers under tutelage of some of South Africa’s top winemakers is helping to encourage young winemaking students to gain the necessary expertise to become star winemakers of the future. ... More
The Cape Winemakers Guild has stepped up its role in promoting wine industry transformation by inducting two additional recruits, Rose Kruger and Rudger van Wyk, into its Protégé Programme, bringing the total number of aspiring young winemakers being mentored to eight. ... More
Debuting in the upcoming edition of Platter's Guide is exciting young winery Domaine Coutelier, owned by UK-born businessman Quint Cutler, who in 2011 swapped the bustling hill of Paris' Montmartre for the bucolic heights above Stellenbosch's Devon Valley. ... More
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