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TOPS Gugulethu Wine Festival

“At the end of a week filled with doom and gloom for SA wine, with commentators calling the industry in decline, a glimpse at a rosy future peaked from behind ominous rain clouds this evening on the roof of a shopping mall in suburban Gugulethu.

“… A far younger, more exotic and better dressed capacity crowd than that which fronts up at the increasingly tired wine shows in Sandton and Cape Town (that look increasingly more supermarket retail than wine showcase) sampled some of thekiefest brands on the scene.

“The success of the first Gugulethu wine show is a turning point in local wine promotion. … When Zille praised the organisers and, in particularly Ngcawuzele (owner of the famous Mzoli's eatery around the corner, and owner of two wine brands that featured on the show) for bringing people of different cultures and backgrounds together, she could just as well have called for an effective local body to generically market and promote wine inside South Africa.”