South African Wine

South Africa is one of the most exciting wine regions these days and the world's ninth largest wine producer with more than 600 wineries and 6,000 wines. Though it’s considered a New World wine producer, South Africa’s winemaking heritage reaches back to the 1600s. Recent advances in the wine industry, due greatly to the opening up of export markets in the 1990s, have spurred a quest for quality that we are seeing manifest in very exciting wines hitting the markets today.