Cape Winemakers Guild and their Auction

This is a bottle of Auction Wine from the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction. It was one of the wines tasted at a KCCWS event (and since I cannot locate the notes yet, I cannot tell you when and what the occasion was). Founded by eight winemakers in 1982, the Cape Winemakers Guild (CWG) has gone on to become a significant force in winemaking in South Africa, through innovation and the exchange of knowledge. There is an auction each year, whereby the members would showcase their rarest and finest. There is a silent auction, through which funds raised are used by the CWG Development Trust to provide schooling and other educational programmes for disadvantaged children in wineland areas. The Development Trust also looks after the wine industry too, by providing for a paid internship programme for talented local winemakers from disadvantaged backgrounds, perhaps to be trained as future members of the CWG.