Update 27 May 2011: Charles Banks is also involved with the new Sandhi venture in California, making a burgundian-style Wine of the Week.
Charles Banks, once heavily involved in the new regime at Screaming Eagle in the Napa Valley, contacted me on Friday to set the record straight about his consortium's activities in South Africa. For some time the Cape was abuzz with rumours that they were going to acquire the promising Cordoba winery (see Cape's Screaming Eagle connection) but this fell through.
In the end, he says, 'we were able to acquire Tulbagh Mountain Vineyards. There is...