South Africa has real potential for success in the coming five to ten years. Having one (traditional) foot in the Old World, and one in the New, South African styles, whether white or red, always show a fruity core cloaked in a suit of restraint and elegant, European structure. Today, not one modern South African winemaker hasn’t travelled around the world to see how people make wine on other continents. And this openness shows in the character of the wines: better viticultural techniques, like eradication programs for the extinction of leaf roll virus or better grape selection strategies in both the vineyard and the winery to bring in more homogenously ripe fruit, have led to more focused and pure wines, especially reds, with less of the so-called “savoury” character that a lot of international journalists are still looking down upon.