The Mercury Wine Week

30 August - 1 September 2017. Mercury Wine Week rocks the Durban wine calendar each year, bringing in new wine drinkers to its social circle and entertaining older lovers of the grape with the latest styles, vintages and artistic experimentation in the industry.

The Mercury Wine Week offers the ideal opportunity to search for new wines for sundowners, those hidden gems with which to impress friends and others just calling out for an old-fashioned South African braai after the rugby.

Since 1979 it has provided Durban and KwaZulu-Natal with the platform to host the country’s leading wine producers, estates and players while thrilling and challenging everyone to the nuances of new releases, old favourites and different talking points.

It brings together delicatessen food, wine exhibitors and hundreds of wines under the African skies from farms boasting histories spanning centuries to undiscovered boutiques wineries seeking a toe-hold to unexplored markets.

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No under 18s. Please drink responsibly.