Wine Spectator Insider awards 91+ points to Paul Cluver Chardonnay 2009, De Trafford Chenin Blanc 2009, Buitenverwachting Chardonnay 2010 while De Trafford Straw Wine 2008 is listed as a Hot Hit at 93pts.
South Africa's wine redemption - Dr Eilis Cryan's one-woman mission
Wine: South Africa's wine redemption
22 January 2012 by Tomás Clancy, Sunday Business Post
Dr Eilis Cryan is on a one-woman mission to bring bespoke South African wine to Ireland.
One woman, however, has made it her mission to concentrate solely on handcrafted Burgundy-style South African wine. A Galway doctor Eilis Cryan became interested in South African wines after travelling to the country in 1998. She founded Kinnegar Wines on her return, and began a 13-year engagement with some of the bestwinemakers and wine estates in South Africa. Over the years she has amassed Irish agencies for wine estates that are fought over tooth and nail in other jurisdictions.
Paul Cluver Chardonnay 2009
At the recent Five Nations Challenge in Australia incorporating the wines of Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the Paul Cluver Chardonnay won the trophies for the Best Chardonnay and Best White Wine of the Show, in effect of the Southern Hemisphere!
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