Each week our independent, panel of expert wine judges; taste and score all the wines blind. Blind wine tasting ensures no judge is influenced by a label and only the very best scoring wine in chosen for sale.
Every week we aim to bring you a panellist’s favourite wine from their Monday night tasting. This week Christine Rudman shares hers.
Wine is an expression of life and its celebrations, and should be followed with a whole heart and the moments seized at every turn.
“There is always something new, just around the corner, waiting to be discovered”
Margaret Fundira has been judging wine since 2001.
“I believe wine improves with age. The older I get the more I enjoy it.”
David Biggs is a Wine-of-the-Month Club founding member.
“Somm say wine, it is forever”
Gregory Mutambe is a Qualified Cape Sommelier.
“A serious business that is also a lot of fun too”
Winnie Bowman is a Cape Wine Master and has been judging wine since 2005.
“I moonlight as a winemaker, or maybe I am a winemaker moonlighting as a wine writer.”
Irina became a Cape Wine Master in 1989.
“Wine makes you see double, and act single. The doctors say: you have to choose. Wine or Memory. You can't have both!”
Principle of the Cape Wine Academy
"I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food."
Christine Rudman is a Cape Wine Master and has been judging wine for 16 years.
"It doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty, there is clearly room for more wine!"
“The tough choice of deciding whether a 1904 Rhine Riesling was better than a 1945”
PJ 'Buks' Nel has been on the Wine-of-the-Month Club panel for the last 22 years and has also judged for the Veritas Wine Awards.
"It’s about your own experience of the wine. Taste it honestly. Your own experience of the wine is usually true.”
Tinashe Nyamudoka is one of South Africa’s finest and most-respected wine sommeliers.
Tonight the panel is blind tasting the following wines.
“The most expensive wines are not necessarily the best”
Colin Collard, founded The Wine-of-the-Month Club in 1986.