south africa
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Take Us Where The Wind Blows! Harvest Club (Jan 2022)
Harvest Club Wines: Happy New Year Mission Wine Fans! This month we travel the four cardinal directions! Starting in South Africa we visit husband and wife Mick and Jeanine Craven of Craven Wines in beautiful Stellenbosch! . Then we head North to Naoussa, Greece, and meet Apostolos Thymiopoulos, the man behind Thymiopoulos Vineyards. Next, we head West to the mountains... -
From Odysseus to Magellan! Premier Club (Jan 2022)
Featured Premier Club Wines: 2019 CRAVEN WINES | CABERNET SAUVIGNON | STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA The King! A variety Mick and Jeanine never thought they would entertain making until a lovely little site on the Karibib Vineyard was made apparent. The vineyard sits at 1,000 feet in elevation in the western part of Stellenbosch. The southeasterly wind coming off of False... -
Not Just Any Port in a Storm! Explorer Club (Jan 2022)
Featured Explorer Club Wines: The weathered landscape of South Africa is the result of millions of years of battering storms. Storms that stirred in the waters off of the 'Cape of Good Hope." That name is recent as historically it was known as the 'Cabo das Tormentas', or 'Cape of Storms.' In 1488 Bartolomeu Dias made the first modern rounding...