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Purity emerges in Cape wines

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Jancis Robinson
Tuesday 27 September 2011
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See also recent tasting notes on Some of South Africa's best wines and Richard's tasting notes on Iona's Sauvignons.

Tamlyn wrote earlier this year about The Cape's controversial auction and wondered what changes new CWG chairman Louis Strydom might introduce. The pressure will be on to achieve an impressive sale total at this year's CWG auction this Saturday 1 October after a very successful performance at the rival Nederburg auction earlier this month.

If the Cape Winemakers Guild auction wines can be taken as a barometer of the state of South African wine, I'd say things are very much...