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Angelo van Dyk
- Oct 4, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Angelo van Dyk
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Mar 2, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Mar 2, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Mar 2, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Oct 31, 2020
- 1 min
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.
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Angelo van Dyk
- Aug 28, 2020
- 1 min
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,...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Aug 28, 2020
- 1 min
BLACK CELLAR CLUB (BLACC)
Black Cellar Club (BLACC) was established in 2016 in South Africa as an organisation committed to assisting black sommeliers further...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Jun 15, 2020
- 2 min
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 -...
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Angelo van Dyk
- Jun 15, 2020
- 3 min
BLM
Change and integration in the South African wine trade has been slow, but there are a number of BIPOC personalities needing our support.
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Angelo van Dyk
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Harvest Report 2020
A short report on harvest 2020, and looking towards a post Covid-19 brand.
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Angelo van Dyk
- Apr 11, 2020
- 1 min
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.
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Angelo van Dyk
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
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”.
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Angelo van Dyk
- Nov 30, 2018
- 3 min
Ezekiel is Zimbabwean...
Ezekiel is Zimbabwean. He catches a dodgy, dinged out train into Stellenbosch every morning, wearing oversized gumboots and blue overalls.
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Angelo van Dyk
- May 31, 2018
- 2 min
Introduction
A long journey into wine took an exciting turn when I decided to jump into making some of my own.
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