Matthys Botes is the winemaker behind South Africa's leading sparkling wine brand, J.C. Le Roux, the country's first cellar devoted entirely to the art of making premium bubbly.
Established in 1982 in the picturesque Devon Valley of the world-renowned Stellenbosch wine region, the brand is named after French Huguenot Jean Le Roux, who settled in…
One of the perennial favourites at the annual Johannesburg Cap Classique, Champagne & Bubbles Festival is Pongrácz, an award-winning, iconic South African bubbly that was first released in 1990, in memory of Desiderius Pongrácz, a Hungarian aristocrat who, after 10 years as a war prisoner in Siberia, first returned to Hungary and then fled the…