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	September 28, 2006 - Peter Rockwell Yes, folks, it's wine-fair season again, with the Port of Wines Festival 2006 presenting close to 300 wines for your sniffing, sipping and More>
	September 2006 - Peter J. Rockwell Free Run Makes Occasions Magazine The annual Port of Wines Festival is one of NSLC's most popular events. Dont miss this year's Grand Tastings being held Seot. 29, 30 at the Cunard Event Center in Halifax, Pier 23. More>
	September 2006 - Allan Mullins, Allan's Choice Cape Wine Master AllanMullins believe that although Constantia Uitsig and Flagstone are winerys with very different wines, locations and philosophies.... More>
	September 2006 - Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press Flagstone Winery announces BEE partnership Last week saw the launch of Flagstone Winery’s BEE initiative, a new range called Ses’fikile – 100% black and female owned, to the local trade and media. More>
	Michael Fridjohn, 18 September 2006 Ses'fikile Launch MORE than a decade into a postapartheid democratic era, the Cape wine industry is battling with transformation and empowerment issues. At one level this is hardly surprising. Many less complex sectors of the economy have failed to come up with a perfect paradigm. More>
	14 September, by Melvyn Minnaar, www.grape.co.za VIEWS & TASTES There is something deliciously egalitarian to the thought, neatly accentuated by Dave Hughes, that both bottom-end plonk and the array of expensive try-to-be icon whites offered at the tasting in question here, are made by adding together wines from different grapes. More>
	August 2006, Tutored by Wine Educator - Neil Courtier. Grape Sense (UK) Tasting Flagstone 'Noon Gun' White Blend 2005 - Viewed as offering brilliant value for money. Flagstone 'Free Run' Sauvignon Blanc 2005 - Loire-like, with grapefruit characteristics & racy acidity. More>
	Sunday 3rd September 2006- By Donald Paul, Business Day How chefs say cheers to one of their own The restaurant world is a cut-throat business but, as DONALD PAUL discovered at a farewell feast for one of SA’s finest, there is honour among chefs More>
	August, 2006 Favourite wines Here are some customer feedback comments from our last newsletter where we asked Flagstonites to tell us what their favourite FLAGSTONE wine is More>
	Thursday May 18, 2006 - By Joelle Thomson New tastes of South Africa on the way South Africans might prefer to think of their wine industry as a relative newcomer to the global stage but it is actually 347 years old and saddled with a history of cheap chenin blanc and patchy pinotage. More>
	21 July 2006 - - Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press The Error for Margin Businesses fly because profit margins are comfortable. The wine industry isn’t one of those. No, somehow there’s a strange beauty that drives it. Even the really awe-inspiring, big guns with shelf-flooding brands like Blossom Hill can’t continually boast double digit profitability - the wine industry isn’t therefore very attractive to stock market quarterly reporting. More>
	July 21, 2006, Wine Spectator Online Stirring the Lees with James Molesworth A Sit Down With South African Vintner Bruce Jack.. I sat down with Bruce Jack the other day, to get caught up on things in South Africa. Jack, 36, is the owner and winemaker at Flagstone winery, and he’s what I consider a typical South African vintner: quality oriented, producing a moderate volume (about 70,000 cases a year) and focusing on Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Sauvignon Blanc (the Cape’s best grapes, along with Chenin Blanc). More>
	August, 2006 - Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press What our Biodiversity message means to a winemaker Since the Second World War global agriculture has without malicious intent embarked on a self-destructive path of unbalanced chemical fertilisation. It’s a long, tortuous story that continues to leave farmers underpaid and undervalued. More>
	2006 - Jancis Robinson, www.jancisrobinson.com To try the particularly pungent, green, leafy style of Elim Sauvignon Blanc, seek out Flagstones The Berrio Sauvignon Blanc 2005 Elim (9.99 Oddbins, also Sweden). All of these wines are excellent value and, at the risk of inciting the ire of the legion of Marlborough fans, I would argue that they have much more individuality than many New Zealand Sauvignons. More>
	June, 2006 - Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press Rain Rain does funny things to a farmer’s view of the world. I came home from a recent trip to the UK, landing at Cape Town airport in a winter storm. An evil north westerly wind whipped around the peninsular, tearing at waterfalls of heavy Atlantic rain. Before our Table Bay harbour breakwater was built, this sort of storm would cause serious havoc to the ships at anchor in our most important bay. On one fateful night 36 ships were torn loose and wrecked along the Blauberg and Woodstock beaches. More>
	June 15, 2006 By Peter Rockwell, HFX/The Daily News Hook line and sinker 2005 Fish Hoek Rose should please any red-wine lover More>
	June 16, 2006 By Doug Sloan, North Islander Intriguing white wines More>
	June 16, 2006 By Doug Sloan, North Islander Noon Gun Flagstone is a well-established South African winery whose gems are just beginning to show up on shelves in British Columbia. More>
	May 22, 2006 Bruce Jack From London The Dog and Pony Show You’ve made the wines and put them in a bottle. The easy part is over. Now you have to convince someone to buy the stuff. This is called The Dog and Pony Show. Back in the days of Jesse James the Wild West, was… well, it was wild. But it was also poor and desperate – a lot like today’s wine industry. More>
	May 11, 2006 - By Peter Rockwell, The Daily News If you don’t know Jack Then you’re missing out on some wonderful South African wines More>
	April 12, 2006 - By Angela Lloyd Grape Minds Spotlights Cape’s Passionate Wine Individuals Diversity and unity – both are useful concepts for the industry, suggests Angela Lloyd, musing on some elements of the recent Cape Wine 2006 event More>
	Saturday April 29, 2006 By SEAN WOOD, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA South African wines spark excitement WHOEVER SAID that "getting there is half the fun" clearly had not made the journey to South Africa recently. It is a long way but when you get there the discomfort of the trip is quickly forgotten. More>
	28 April 2006 by Angela Lloyd Striking a balance Diversity and unity ñ both are useful concepts for the industry, suggests Angela Lloyd, musing on some elements of the recent Cape Wine 2006 event. More>
	May 05, 2006 By Doug Sloan, North Islander Flagstone wines - more than just varietals More>
	May 02, 2006 Sara de Villiers, Wine.co.za Real people making a real difference A recent visit to South Africa's southernmost wine-producing region proved enlightening and inspiring. The newly formed Elim Winegrowers is a group of very switched on individuals, determined to make their mark on the global wine scene while nurturing their unique natural and cultural heritage. Sara de Villiers had the pleasure of meeting this upbeat and, at times, offbeat clan. More>
	April 21, 2006 Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press Berg Wind Vintage is a battle, or more accurately, a very rough game; the best result of which can only be a draw. Nature will never let your ego triumph. More>
	March, 2006 Jo Locke, MW. “The Wine Society – Hot Growers.” Bruce Jack – Flagstone Winery, South Africa A real rising star, Flagstone, established in 1998, was recently named as one of the top wineries in South Africa and has one of the country’s most consistent wine ranges. Bruce Jack’s engaging personality, understanding of consumer tastes, and perfectionist technical ability in the winery make him one to watch. More>
	Friday, March 10, 2006 wine in the 'peg Fish Hoek Sauvignon Blanc From South Africa’s Flagstone Winery comes the Fish Hoek Sauvignon Blanc (2005 vintage). It will set you back $14.93 plus tax at your neighbourhood MLCC. And it is so worth the price! More>
	March, 2006 Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press Firestorm Day In a runaway veldt fire, the world turns a dirty orange. The gale force wind is stripping life off you like a prayer flag on Everest. And it’s loud – much louder than your worst memory of your most disastrous teenage disco. More>
	March, 2006 - Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press Crush Diary The quality is great. We have just unloaded our first batch of gorgeous Shannon Vineyard Pinot Noir from cool climate Elgin. The grower of these magnificent globes, James Downes, is a perfectionist. His vines look like they have been trimmed with nail clippers and the cover-crop between the vines looks like it was cut and combed by Bianca, my wife’s hairdresser. More>
	February, 02, 2006 - Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press Veraison Road Trip Early yesterday morning I drove up the N1 from my home in Cape Town turning northwards on the R44 at Wellington, a small town sheltering from the promise of heat in a depression at the foot of the Groenberg mountains. More>
	January, 03, 2006 - Bruce Jack, Flagstone Press Music Room The Music Room 2003 has just received a 4 star award in the March edition of Decanter. The magazine is running a feature on Cape Cabernets, and the Music Room scored top marks with the panel. Over 85 wines were tasted.