Results of the Judgement of Harris tasting are in - courtesy of Zelma Long's own blog...

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...

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...

Vilafonte, 2008 2008 will produce classic wines. And the personality and chemistry of our grapes has been quite distinct from 2007.First a word about the weather. 2008 has been distinguished by a later bloom and cooler growing season, resulting in a later harvest for Vilafonte. Feb 15 was our first ...

The Setting: The tasting took place at the Harrisburg Hilton in Pennsylvania, hosted by Bill Kohl, hotel chairman. An air conditioned, quiet room was set up for the 23 tasters, each with a sheet identifying the 12 participating wines on a list, but not identifying their placement in the tasting ...

Driving through Washington DCWatch the vlogDriving past the Washingotn memorial in DCTags: warwick, rootstock, luxury, freese, broadbent, wine, vilafonte, long, zelma, ratcliffe...

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...

Zelma has just taken an amazing new photo that I wanted to post. It gives a fantastic impression of the location of our property in relation to the mountains! This is looking South towards the Drakenstein (Dragon) mountains. Stellenbosch is off to the right and Paarl is behind our left shoulder...

From LTR: Bernard le Roux (winemaker), Edward Pietersen (Viticulturist), Zelma Long (Winemaking partner), Phil freese (Viticulture partner), Mike Ratcliffe (managing partner), Ronald Spies (Viticulture manager...