News>Estate Blend Stays On Winning Streak - Veritas Awards 2002


Rust en Vrede's 1999 Estate Wine recently won a gold medal at Veritas 2002 to cement its position as one of South Africa's leading red blends and as an emerging icon wine.

This 1999 Estate Wine already has an illustrious reputation - and pedigree. For the third year running, this wine has excelled in the US Wine Spectator tastings, this time with a 91/100. In the previous two years, the Estate Wine has been named one of this magazine's top 100 wines - the only South African wine ever to achieve this back-to-back accolade. More important than one-off medals is consistency: something for which Rust en Vrede is now very well known.

In San Francisco's International Wine Competition, the biggest in the world, it also gathered a gold award as well as "Best of Nation" for South Africa. With this continuing affirmation, it is becoming clear that Rust en Vrede's Estate Wine is, by international and local peer review, South Africa's leading blended red wine. This gold award for the 1999 Estate Wine also rounds out Rust en Vrede's exceptional reputation as a creator of superior blended wines - all Rust en Vrede and Guardian Peak blends entered for this year's Veritas won Gold or Double Gold.

Only ten wines were awarded Double Gold or Gold in this year's Red Blends category, Rust en Vrede and Guardian Peak took three of these with the very three blends they produce. This is even more remarkable if one considers that there were over 120 wines competing in this category - a notable Rust en Vrede milestone.