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Wines of South Africa UK – Young Blood press tasting

3 April 2013

On 5th January, Oz Clark tweeted: “Thought for 2013. Does South Africa have more exciting winemakers late 20s to early 30s than any other nation? Discuss. Well, OK, argue”. This, we though, would make a great theme for our next press tasting.

On 27th March 2013 WOSA UK presented 130 wines to the UK media and wine educators, all made by South Africa’s younger generation of winemakers, aged 35 or under. The aim was to showcase the new wave of talent on the SA wine scene.

The tasting was very well attended with 31 visitors on the day, including:

Victoria Moore, The Telegraph

Anthony Rose, The Independent

Fiona Beckett, The Guardian

Julia Harding, jancisrobinson.com

Matthew Jukes, Daily Mail

Stephen Spurrier, Decanter

Peter Richards, Saturday Kitchen

Nina Caplan, The Spectator

Clinton Cawood, Imbibe

A number of high profile freelance writers also attended, alongside wine educators, several wine bloggers, independent wine merchants and organisers of consumer wine events.

Some tweets following the event:

Victoria Moore?@PlanetVictoria 28 Mar

Love vibe of new South African wine scene: like bunch of chilled out kids making happy wines, taste like jazz funk sounds. #YoungGunsTasting

Miguel Franco?@miguelfranco27 Mar

fantastic Tasting @WinesofSA @JoWehring @ClaudiaWOSAUK press tasting today quite a few very nice wines

Beans Boughton?@BeansMeansWines27 Mar

@planetotgrapes we need more Porseleinberg Syrah from @newgenwines. Its appearance at@WinesofSA has caused quite a stir.

Colin Smith?@grapefan27 Mar

Another successful #wosa tasting thx to @JoWehring and @ClaudiaWOSAUK showing

Peter Turner?@drinkersite27 Mar

@WinesofSA you have a bunch of great young winemakers and two superstars in@TormentosoWines and @BouchFinlayson brilliant across the board

Jo Wehring, UK market manager, Wines of South Africa

3rd April 2013