This year’s ABSA Top 10 Pinotage Awards marks Flagstone Wines’ 8th placement among the competition’s leading wines. Listed alongside top South African wine producers such as Kanonkop, Beyerskloof and Rijk’s Wines, Flagstone Wines’ Writer’s Block Pinotage 2020 held the wine producer’s flag high in its 14-year participation (since 2009) in the prestigious annual wine challenge.  ...

The SA Wine Awards London 2022 results confirm that South African winemaking is hitting its stride in achieving world-class results. The inaugural SA Wine Awards London 2022 results have been announced and confirm that South African winemaking is hitting its stride in achieving world-class results. Fourteen Double Gold medals were awarded to a range of outstanding wines. ...

Flagstone dominated the 2022 National Wine Challenge / Top 100 SA Wines competition, walking away with 2 Grand Cru, 5 Top 100 & Double Platinum wins plus 6 Double Golds and a Wine of the Year. Flagstone Dragon Tree Cape Blend has claimed the Red Wine of the Year for 2022 – the highest scoring red in the challenge. ...

Flagstone Wines consistently creates wines that reflect its 350-year-old winemaking heritage. The vegan Paradigm Chenin Blanc 2020 is one such example. Head winemaker of Flagstone, Gerhard Swart, is passionate about making gorgeous wines that stimulate your brain as much as they please your taste buds. Hence Flagstone Wines’s tagline, #WeAreBornCreative.  About the Paradigm Chenin Blanc 2020 Its ...

Shiraz SA has announced the winners of its ninth annual Shiraz Challenge. This is the 4th-time Flagstone’s Dark Horse Shiraz is featured in Shiraz SA’s Top 12. Our previous vintages include 2016, 2015 and 2013. The 12 Shiraz wines singled out for 2021 are: • Cederberg Shiraz 2018• Driehoek Syrah 2019• Koelfontein Shiraz 2019• Landskroon ...

The National Wine Challenge, incorporating Top 100 SA Wines, the premier fine-wine-only wine competition in SA, launches the industry’s first set of key results for 2021. Given the nature of Covid risks and protocols it was again not possible to host the annual celebratory awards fixture.  A strong line up of over six hundred fine wine ...

Since commencing our 2021 season on 1 February, we have harvested 150 tons of fruit, this is about 40% of this year’s crop. Almost all of our Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc is in the cellar with only a single load of Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc still hanging on the vine. Next week ...

The last 12 months have been an immensely challenging period for the South African wine industry and that is also true for Flagstone. We are very grateful that we are once again able to sell our delicious wines to our loyal followers. We thank each of you for helping us keep our doors open and, ...

This month marks 21 years since the first Flagstone vintage was released. A remarkable journey from the innovative beginnings in the Cape Town Harbour, as South Africa’s first winery without its own estate, to the multi-award-winning winery that resides in Somerset West and boasts a library of 25 different wines. In the early days, Flagstone ...

The 2020 Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards received a healthy 1565 entries. From that, a total of 615 awards are presented which includes a few new categories that include, Ready to Drink entries, Old Vine Wines and Innovative Packaging. Flagstone Wines is awarded a Double Gold and six Gold medals in this year’s competition, ...

While the winter allowed the vineyards to rest, the same can’t be said for our Winemaking Team, who are in full production mode. We have just completed the tasting, blending and preparation for bottling of these wines: 2020 Word of Mouth Viognier 2020 Free Run Sauvignon Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc Reserve (blending this week) 2020 ...

Vineyards We are now entering the rest phase, a dormancy period, for the vines as the soil becomes colder and the leaves have fallen. After harvest, vines begin to build up reserves of carbohydrates that are stored in the root and trunk of the vine. We support the vines to build-up carbohydrate stores through post-harvest ...

When we named Writer’s Block, we needed a creative solution to delineating this single block wine during a period when South Africa’s laws prevented single-vineyard designation on bottles. A single block is special because it is a pure expression of that corner of the world for a particular year. It is a description of time, ...

Legend has it that Viognier is an ancient grape originating in Dalamatia (present-day Croatia) and was brought to the Rhone Valley during the Roman occupation. One legend states that the Roman emperor Probus brought the vine to the region in 281 AD; another has the grape packaged with Syrah on a cargo ship navigating the ...

This week we picked the old bush vine Chenin Blanc for our Tributary wine as well as the last of this year’s Chenin that is specifically reserved for a new Flagstone Icon wine. This year’s Chenin is good quality and the grapes have ripened with lower sugar levels that will result in slightly lower alcohol ...