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Some months ago I was lamenting in this column the absence of good, less expensive red Bordeaux wines in South Africa (the actual stuff, not...
I know I’m not alone in thinking that Paarl has a rather lacklustre image as a Wine of Origin region: Paarl thinks so itself. It’s...
The pandemic has its obscure upside for diners-out. While sorely regretting the permanent loss of some restaurants (and hoping more will hold on), there is,...
Which is the hill in question, I wondered, as I stood with Kristopher Tillery looking down over his vineyards. Surely Noble Hill couldn’t refer to...
As I grow older (should I say: as I grow old?), I find myself often discarding new quarter-read books and turning to my bookshelves, or...
Somewhat irritated by grappling with wax capsules on wine bottles, I recently wrote about how best to cope with them, given their annoyingly varying consistency...
There are only 28 wines on this year’s Cape Winemakers Guild (online-only) auction, compared with 45 last year. Given the (ok, arguably) absurdly high prices...
It seems that the proliferation of synthetic wax capsules on wine bottles – especially those of the more new-wave producers – is something of a...
With the recent decades’ undoubted improvement in Cape wines at all levels, there’s not a lot of really bad stuff out there, is my impression...
The question used to come up amongst wine’s chattering circles – though I haven’t heard or seen it mentioned recently: Are the Cape’s white wines,...
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