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HARVEST REPORT 2023
A quick harvest report for 2023
Angelo van Dyk
May 16, 20233 min read
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COMING SOON: OUR SKINSY MUSCAT
If you have ever travelled to Oman, you will likely have travelled via the city of Muscat, the country’s capital. Outside of the Arabian...
Angelo van Dyk
Oct 4, 20222 min read
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HARVEST REPORT 2022
Harvest 2022 was loaded with ups and downs. Many of them. But in pausing to reflect on that notion, I feel like that tends to be a theme...
Angelo van Dyk
May 31, 20223 min read
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WASTED WINE CLUB
Introducing: Wasted Wine Club
Angelo van Dyk
Dec 8, 20212 min read
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One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
When it comes to natural wine, there is a lot of debate as to where one draws the line on what is technically a natural wine versus one...
Angelo van Dyk
Aug 20, 20211 min read
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Celebrating Our Stockists
The world is slowly returning to some semblance of life as we once knew it. Here in the U.K., Spring has sprung, the days are getting...
Angelo van Dyk
Aug 20, 20211 min read
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Grenache Gris 2020 Release
The first addition to the Yo El Rey range since the launch of the 2018 red cuvee is now available in both South Africa and the United...
Angelo van Dyk
Mar 2, 20211 min read
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Yo El Rey Playlist // Sip & Fly
If you've never heard of Sophiatown, it's worth looking up. It was a suburb of Johannesburg that for many years during the Apartheid...
Angelo van Dyk
Mar 2, 20211 min read
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Picasso: The King Of Cool
As many of you know, the name Yo El Rey was inspired by Pablo Picasso. Beyond his immense influence and legacy he left on the world of...
Angelo van Dyk
Mar 2, 20211 min read
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Pebbles Project x Yo El Rey
Yo El Rey will donate £1 of every wine sold direct to the consumer to Pebbles Project, a charity based in South Africa.
Angelo van Dyk
Oct 31, 20201 min read
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WILD LEGGS COOKOUT
There’s something about removing wine from the pomp and flash of bars and restaurants and just drinking it out in nature, in the wild,...
Angelo van Dyk
Aug 28, 20201 min read
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BLACK CELLAR CLUB (BLACC)
Black Cellar Club (BLACC) was established in 2016 in South Africa as an organisation committed to assisting black sommeliers further...
Angelo van Dyk
Aug 28, 20201 min read
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ONWARD
Onward, and the brand philosophy.
Angelo van Dyk
Jul 23, 20202 min read
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A list of South African BIPOC wine makers, Wine brands, sommeliers, distillers and brewers.
Wine brands: Bosman Adama - @bosmanadama Tebogo Ditsebe - Botebo Wines - @botebowines Lindile Ndzaba - Khayelitsha Fine Wines -...
Angelo van Dyk
Jun 15, 20202 min read
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BLM
Change and integration in the South African wine trade has been slow, but there are a number of BIPOC personalities needing our support.
Angelo van Dyk
Jun 15, 20203 min read
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Harvest Report 2020
A short report on harvest 2020, and looking towards a post Covid-19 brand.
Angelo van Dyk
May 3, 20201 min read
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The launch parties
What better way to charge head on into 2020 with not one, but TWO, small fiestas, celebrating Yo El Rey landing in the United Kingdom.
Angelo van Dyk
Apr 11, 20201 min read
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Harvest Report 2019
Harvest 2019 was a weird one. It seems a strange sentence to profess, because admittedly I can’t even tell you why it was “weird”.
Angelo van Dyk
May 30, 20193 min read
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Ezekiel is Zimbabwean...
Ezekiel is Zimbabwean. He catches a dodgy, dinged out train into Stellenbosch every morning, wearing oversized gumboots and blue overalls.
Angelo van Dyk
Nov 30, 20183 min read
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Introduction
A long journey into wine took an exciting turn when I decided to jump into making some of my own.
Angelo van Dyk
May 31, 20182 min read
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