KWV PROUD OF EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE AT DECANTER WORLD WINE AWARDS 2021

Celebration fires are burning high at KWV following another incredible performance in a global wine competition, this time at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 (DWWA). KWV is exceptionally proud that its wines secured multiple medals from Decanter, a competition regarded as the “largest and most influential” of its kind. Notably, KWV is honoured to announce that two of its wines secured a Decanter Platinum medal, reserved for wines that scored 97 or more out of a possible 100. In total, KWV secured no less than 15 medals in the 90+ score range.

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2021 HARVEST BEGINNING AND SEASON TRENDS TO DATE.

To sit and reflect, at this time every year, on the season behind and project into the future for vintage, is normally a jovial fool’s errand with perhaps 50/50 success, but fun none the less. This year is a very, very different animal. From lockdown immediately after harvest 2020, alcohol bans, COVID19 through the year to date. So many words, key words, touchstone words, trigger words, a multitude of words with immediate visceral impacts on us all. Lockdown, Sanitise, Isolation, Curfew, travel restriction, zoom meetings, working from home, mute button failures, Spouses/kids/pets fails on video meetings, toilet paper shortages, mask, testing, sick, infected, hospitalised, public health care system and increasingly now on a planetary scale: Condolences.

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A SINGLE SOUTH AFRICAN WINE CELLAR SECURES A TROPHY AT CONCOURS MONDIAL 2021

KWV is "blown away" after just being named the producer of the best wine in the South African category in the international, 28th Concours Mondial de Bruxelles competition. The Mentors Perold 2018, a premium Cape red blend, was the only South African wine to take home a Grand Gold as well as a Revelations Trophy – only awarded to the best of the best wines in the competition. It also took home a Silver Medal for its Roodeberg Rosé 2020, and in doing so, was the highest rated still rosé from South Africa.

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KWV HEEDING THE GLOBAL NEED FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Social inequality, human integrity and environmental protection are global challenges. These issues have been gaining momentum for years, and now, with a global pandemic illustrating just how fragile our environmental-human system is, there is an even greater onus on businesses to act in a sustainable matter. Protecting our earth and its people is not a choice anymore, it is a crucial call for all businesses to fully embrace sustainable practices to ensure a liveable future.

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KWV PROUD OF EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE AT DECANTER WORLD WINE AWARDS 2021

Celebration fires are burning high at KWV following another incredible performance in a global wine competition, this time at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 (DWWA). KWV is exceptionally proud that its wines secured multiple medals from Decanter, a competition regarded as the “largest and most influential” of its kind. Notably, KWV is honoured to announce that two of its wines secured a Decanter Platinum medal, reserved for wines that scored 97 or more out of a possible 100. In total, KWV secured no less than 15 medals in the 90+ score range.

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KWV TAKES CHAMPION RED BLEND AT PRESTIGIOUS SA NATIONAL YOUNG WINE SHOW

The Champion Red Blend of 2021 belongs to KWV. This notable achievement was announced at the 2021 SA National Young Wine Show, presented by Agri-Expo, where this Paarl-based producer was awarded the prestigious Vine Products Trophy for SA Champion Red Blend for its KWV Shiraz/Cabernet Sauvignon/Petite Sirah/Petit Verdot/Cabernet Franc (wooded). In addition to this phenomenal accomplishment, KWV also celebrates being named Category Winner for Other Red for its Petite Sirah.

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