We had a very interesting visit this week from Jan and Yvonne Rook - influential and extremely well travelled wine journalist from Holland whose www.flyingwinewriter.com www.wijnplein.nl websites are one of the most influential wine mediums in Dutch industry. His comments are published daily to the site and are read but a dedicated trade following of almost 3000 people. He was funny...

Watch the vlog The next video of the upcoming Vilafonte winery in Stellenbosch. Things are really taking shape and it is looking good! Tags: south , luxury , freese , africa , series , stellenbosch , wine , vilafonte , long , zelma , ratcliffe...

Watch the vlogMore footage of the amazing state of the art Vilafonte winery taking shape in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Vilafonte is South AFrica's first luxury wine brand as well as being the first ever joint-venture between South Africa and the United States.Tags: wine, luxury, vilafonte, freese, zelma, broadbent, ratcliffe, parker, sexy, south, africa, stellenbosch, podcast, blog, vlog, video...

! Tags: freese ratcliffe series broadbent decanter parker spectator , wine vilafonte luxury construction building zelma ... Watch the vlog The work has begun on the new home for Vilafonte?Vineyards as the team move in. Foundations and infrastructure is in, walls are up and the roof is one. The reinforced floors...

Click To Play A late night interview with the4 extraordinary winemaker Zelma, Long, the head of quality for the first South African American joint winemkaing venture. Have a look at www.vilafonte.com to see more...

Combine the vineyard responsible for Warwick Trilogy, the California super-winemaker Zelma Long and the marketing genius of Mike Ratcliffe and on paper you have a match made in heaven. If on paper this team is unbelievable, on the palate, their Series M and Series C Vilafonte wines are nothing less than transcendent. The matching...

We've shown you some clips on berry sorting - here Zelma Long gives us an explanation of why we are so meticulous about it and why it's so important...

At a function held at the Devon Valley Hotel last night, the 2009 'John Platter' Wine Guide ... star rating for the first time. Californian winemaking partner Zelma Long had this to say; “We ... . Vilafonté is owned and managed by Zelma Long the winemaking partner, Dr. Phil Freese the winegrowing partner and Mike Ratcliffe , the managing Partner.More about Vilafonté: http...

Lange 2005 Pinot Noir: Holy crap. That's a good wine...

The New York Times has an excellent article [free registration required] about the whole sphere of the 100-point wine scoring system. Required reading for any wine enthusiast...