Held
this year at the AVA Gallery in Church Street, where we had a chance to see all the 20 labels
that reached the final, see the awards and then taste the winning label wines
A glass of
Graham Beck Blanc de blancs MCC is always a good welcome
Penny Verburg
of Luddite wines and Anelle van Tonder of Babylonstoren with Journalist Melvin
Minnaar
The awards
Wicus Maritz of the awards’ sponsor Rotolabel gave
the opening speech and had us trying to imagine what wine bottles and their labels
would be like in 40 years’ time. Digitalisation is the future
Niels Verburg of Luddite, who received one of the
two top gold awards; the other went to Simonsig for the Garland
Designer John Pace acted as MC again
Christian Eedes of WineMag.co.za, organiser of the
awards and head judge, announces the awards
The judges: Rebecca Constable of Woolworths,
designers Sean Harrison of Whitespace Creative and Carla Kreuser of The Jupiter
Drawing Room, chef Liam Tomlin and Christian Eedes. They felt that the overall
standard of the 50 entries was satisfactory rather than inspired. There were 20
finalists of which 4 were runners up
Healthy canapés came from Plant
A bemused but delighted Penny and Niels Verburg
with their Saboteur labels
Christian pours a taste for Rebecca Constable
Winemaker Wim Braak and viticulturist Charl du Plessis of Piekenierskloof
with their winning range of labels that tell an interesting story
©
John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus
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