Enter now for Terroir awards

This year's awards, sponsored by Novare, include additional categories, as well as a new trophy, the Novare Trophy for SA Terroir Top Wine Area. Only products certified as a wine of origin from a ward, estate or single vineyard can be entered for the awards. This year's judges are Charl Theron, David Biggs, Dave Hughes, Erika Obermeyer and Pierre Marais.

New categories, awards

• The Elgin ward now has more than 20 wine producers and is listed as its own category rather than as part of the Walker Bay/Cape Agulhas category
  
• The Breedekloof and Worcester districts have also been separated into two categories
  
• The top wine of each cultivar and the top red and white blend will be honoured in all the categories. Previously only the overall top red wine and top white wine were awarded in the smaller categories

"It is not fair that a cultivar wine, which receives a very high average score from the judges, cannot receive the recognition in its category because another wine of a different cultivar from the same area received a national certificate and therefore is the top red or white wine in that category. All the top rated wines of all the cultivars will now be awarded in all the categories," says Charl Theron, convener of the judging panel.

"Thanks to our sponsor, this is the fifth year one of the world's most exclusive wine competitions, based on origin," says Marius Labuschagne, project leader and founder of the awards. The Wine and Spirit Board verifies the legitimacy of all entries.

More information and entry forms are available on the website www.terroirwineawards.co.za