Joanne Gibson
@joanne_gibson
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Winner of the 2023 Jancis Robinson Wine Writing Competition as well as a 2023 OIV Book Award. Fascinated with early Cape wine history. DipWSET.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined February 2011
Fun-filled "Cheninigans" in the @Stellenrust cellar, with Tertius, Kobie & team generously sharing all four of their Standard Bank Top 10 @CheninBlancSA Challenge winners with me. Thank you, & congratulations for your many well-deserved successes this year!
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Couldn't be in Paris tonight with @MaluLambert to receive our @OIV_int award for the @KleinConstantia book. Celebrating an incredible 10 days nonetheless: tonight's award, the launch of my @Vergenoegd book & winning the 2023 @JancisRobinson Wine Writing Competition. Surreal!
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What a funny pic of me! But thank you, Judy, it was lovely to see you last night. Hope you enjoy the book!
Congrats to researcher and writer @joanne_gibson for winning the @Jancis_Robinson 2023 Writers award 👏👏- and here she is with the beautiful just launched history of @Vergenoegd
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Two talented South African wine writers, @joanne_gibson and @emilejoubert, have made @Jancis_Robinson's Wine Writing Competition shortlist. Please vote for your favourite! https://t.co/jA2Hv0KKyl
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Two of South Africa's most talented wine writers have made Jancis Robinson's WWC23 shortlist. Vote for your favourite!
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Our wine writing competition this year was the best ever. Please vote for your favourite account of 'my favourite wine person'
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Congratulations also to @thewinesamarie who has been shortlisted in the image category, for her beautiful photograph of @GeorgioMeletiou
Honoured to be shortlisted in the 2023 @JancisRobinson writing competition. Some truly moving 'favourite wine person' stories here, including fellow SA writer @emilejoubert's tribute to his mother. ('My' person was a tricky subject but it had to be him!)
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Still pinching myself that I'm on this wonderful shortlist.
Our wine writing competition this year was the best ever. Please vote for your favourite account of 'my favourite wine person'
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Why thank you all at @JancisRobinson for this writing competition, chuffed to be on shortlist with such an esteemed quill of scribes including fellow South African @joanne_gibson. https://t.co/ApzPqNGUib
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Honoured to be shortlisted in the 2023 @JancisRobinson writing competition. Some truly moving 'favourite wine person' stories here, including fellow SA writer @emilejoubert's tribute to his mother. ('My' person was a tricky subject but it had to be him!)
jancisrobinson.com
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We’re overjoyed to announce that 'Klein Constantia - the Home of Vin de Constance' has emerged victorious in the prestigious @OIV_int! Our book was awarded the 'Discovering & Presenting Wines' category. Congrats @joanne_gibson @MaluLambert, First Press Editions & the KC Team!
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Also wonderful to have a special Jury Acknowledgement of @heikovfx's beautiful photography in the book, which was project managed by @johnstimpfig1 of First Press Editions.
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Delighted that Klein Constantia: The Home of Vin de Constance (a book I spent over 10 years researching & writing, with modern chapters by @MaluLambert & foreword by @michaelfridjhon) has won the ‘Discovering and Presenting Wines’ category of the 2023 @OIV_int awards.
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A fascinating book to add to your collection: Klein Constantia by @joanne_gibson and @MaluLambert. Now available to pre-order at https://t.co/J6j1fmE7XU. Use code INSPIRE15 at the checkout to get your 15% discount. @KleinConstantia
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When it comes to cellar innovation, we've come a long way since 1896 when a German 'expert' offered South African winemakers some practical instructions, writes @joanne_gibson. https://t.co/N8XCW2PYfg
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When it comes to cellar innovation, we've come a long way since 1896 when a German 'expert' offered South African winemakers some practical instructions…
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Imitation may have been the sincerest form of flattery when it came to legendary Constantia wine. Even Casanova discovered a 'recipe' he admired when visiting Amsterdam in 1764...
Big bucks for Constantia wine and the issue of fraud - @joanne_gibson investigates:
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It's cold, it's dark, it's mid-winter in Cape Town... It might not seem an obvious choice to eat sushi and #DrinkChenin but my oh my it was a delicious one! @CheninBlancSA @KaapzichtWines
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Sold! The bottle of Grand Constance 1821 fetched a phenomenal R420,000 at the @CapeFineWineAuc this afternoon
What will the Grand Constance 1821 fetch at the @CapeFineWineAuc this weekend? @joanne_gibson provides some background to this rare item:
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Another mystery solved. @joanne_gibson provides more on the best producers of the 18th century
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Photographed in 1931, one of the vineyards which in the late 1700s produced wines ‘nearest to the wines of Constantia’. Credit: St Leger Wines It was
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When the pioneering Australian winemaker Thomas Hardy toured South Africa in 1898, he described Paarl as the Cape's 'principal winegrowing district'.
Not-so-humdrum - @joanne_gibson does some digging into the winemaking history of Paarl:
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