News & Articles
Jul 25, 2022
Premium Independent Wines of South Africa (PIWOSA) partners with the South African Sommeliers Association (SASA) ahead of the much-anticipated Cape Wine 2022.
With the return of Cape Wine this year, the magnificent twelve producers under the PIWOSA umbrella are partnering with SASA to showcase the incredibly diverse and exciting varieties of wines they produce....
Jun 6, 2022
All About Individuality
Dale is known for pounding pavements to meet customers around the world. After being grounded for two years, he’s off soon for three months of living out of a suitcase. But, armed with a RD brand bristling with clarity, the future promise of organicity, and the joyous drinkability of Vinum, it’ll be worth it....
Apr 26, 2022
Culture Wine Bar & Radford Dale host Alain Graillot tribute tasting and dinner.
The tribute tasting and dinner were centred around the number 25; a figure significant to Dale in that it commemorates the quarter of a century period in which Radford Dale has imported Graillot’s wines into South Africa...
Apr 1, 2022
Ripe for the times. Value, authenticity and elegance; Radford Dale Vinum’s new lease of life.
Refreshing, distinct and offering rewarding drinkability, the new Vinum wines all represent remarkable value and a degree of individuality uncommon at this level....
Mar 7, 2022
Tim James: Organic wine farming in Elgin
'The property, now called Radford Dale Organic, is in a particularly pretty part of Elgin, it struck me when I visited last week (though when I mentioned this I was told that all of Elgin is pretty!)....'
Nov 18, 2021
Culture Wine Bar’s The Wanderlist: Around the World in a Glass
A taste of the good stuff sans the snobbery.
With current restrictions on globe-trotting, Culture Wine Bar, together with its partner-in-wine Radford Dale, is offering patrons the opportunity to travel the world… through a wineglass.....
Nov 3, 2021
South African Gamay almost became extinct, but there’s hope: two from Radford Dale
Gamay is rare in South Africa. In 2015 there were just 12 hectares planted in the country, down from 29 a decade earlier. As of the end of 2019, this had fallen further to just 7.92 hectares, almost all of which is in Stellenbosch. But Radford Dale have emerged as champions of this variety, and here I tasted two of their Gamays.....
Oct 1, 2021
Global organic vineyard area increases ‘considerably’
The Drinks Business comments on the recent OIV report...
Sep 27, 2021
The Culture of Wine
“I discovered the culture of wine and was inspired by that. It became something for me to hold on to, in a direction that pointed away from me.” - Jacques de Klerk.
