Meerlust

Richard L.Elia

The build up of South Africa as a major wine player in the global market began more than 30 years ago. Its winemaking tradition is, of course, an old rich one and dates to the late 18th century. The modern South African wine scene, however, while still young, is beyond adolescence, and its maturity is as inevitable as it is serious. Whether a semi-paradise of unsurpassed floral fertility, which is virtually virus-free, where frost and hail are non-existent, and which has a lengthy growing period of eight to nine months - and modern technology (planting vines to the best terroir), along with wine experience have made it so...