South African Independent wine bloggers

As promised we bring you the follow-up to our South Africa Pioneer Wine Bloggers post from a few weeks ago. This time around we looked at new(ish) bloggers who write mostly about wine, while not promoting some kind of business with it. Basically these peeps just love to drink and write about wine.

We also re-looked our listing method and for this list we took a number of points into consideration. We looked at the content of their blogs but also added things like twitter updates, google rankings as well as the value of their blog according to http://stimator.com. After adding it all to a spreadsheet grinder, we end up with the list below.

10. Drinking Wine

http://drinkingwine.co.za
Twitter: – Followers: -
Two wine enthusiasts, Nicholas Knott and Donovan Abrey, are so passionate about drinking fantastic South African wine, they’ve created a blog to document their wine experiences! Unfortunately they are a bit slow on the publish button.

9. Migual Chan

miguelchanwinejournal.blogspot.com
Twitter: capewinereview Followers: 645
Wine Sommelier Extraordinaire, Migual Chan, needs little introduction. If you are the kind of wine lover that humps Chateau Petrus like some over excited Mini-Me before opening it, you will love Migual’s blog. Its packed with tasting notes and serious wine stuff. Sniffers and Sippers welcome.

8. Batonage

http://www.batonage.com/
Twitter: Batonage Followers: 13
A nice personal take on Hennie Coetzee’s wine and food adventures. Like most blogs featured here, this one is still fresh out of the box.

7. Winebulb

http://winebulb.winetimes.co.za
Twitter: StefanLuka Followers: 497
Serbian, Dusan Jelic, came to South Africa a couple of years ago in search of … wine. He build up serious wine knowledge and now applies his skills at wine.co.za. Winebulb is his personal wine diary.

6. ZA Wino

http://zawino.wordpress.com
Twitter: zawino Followers: 200
You will probably find this mysterious blogger sucking on his beloved Kanonkop the next time you navigate through the winelands. Take note the man loves wine and can nurture a hangover with one eye open.

5. The Travelling Vineyard

http://thetravellingvineyard.blogspot.com
Twitter: TVdionysus Follower: 220
Another blog where posts are hard to come by. Luckily we’ve seen a recent flurry of activity, which hopefully signals the beginning of a serial blogger. Great to read and even better to follow on twitter.

4. Wine on the Blog

http://wineontheblog.wordpress.com
Twitter: CabrnetCasanova Followers: 16
Spanking new blogger Werner Els adds his voice to the wine blogging community less then a month ago and already we are hooked. Informative and fun.

3. YmartinY

http://ymartiny.co.za
Twitter: ymartiny Followers: 203
Absolutely love this blog. With a fresh take on wine and descriptions like “fuck-me-sideways ravioli” we all wait anxiously for every new post.

2. Cape Town Wine Blog

http://capetownwineblog.com
Twitter: glendawine Followers: 362
Glenda van Blerk spews out great wine news at a rapid rate. Always first with what’s happening in the wine industry, this blog is a delight.

1. Wine and I

http://wineandi.wordpress.com
Twitter: HarryReginald Followers: 343
Harry (The Reginald) Haddon has established himself this year as a serious wine writer and even more so, wine drinker. The next time you open a bottle of vino, be warn, Harry is on his way.

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