A wooded Cabernet Sauvignon from Wellington Wines took the crown by clinching the prestigious General Smuts Trophy as overall SA Champion Wine of 2023 after also being named as the country’s best Cabernet Sauvignon (wooded) at the the SA Young Wine Show. Wellington Wines also won the General Smuts Trophy in 2018 for a wooded Pinotage and this year reached a double achievement by also clinching the Pietman Hugo Trophy. The competition’s impressive array of trophies was announced on 25 August at a prestigious dinner hosted by the Paarl Young Wine Show at the Dawn Mountains function venue near Paarl. Click HERE to read more.