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For a few reasons, I thought it not a bad idea to complement Christian’s notes on the Leeu Passant wines – with not much in...
Distell’s wine crown, never a thing of the greatest brilliance, has been somewhat battered in recent years. Uitkyk and Le Bonheur, just vaguely gleaming, were...
It seems it is allowed. I don’t know if there are readers of this website for whom “social distancing” – or even normal life –...
Should I apologise for returning to the subject of the ageability of Cape wine? It gets dealt with quite often on this forum – most...
It seems it’s going to get us all, this damned virus – one way or another, sooner or later. The world proves itself to be...
Having been pleasantly surprised with some low-priced Italian sangioveses last week, I thought I’d find a few more imports from that delightful land – while...
The history of wine-grape varieties in South Africa remains to be properly researched. It’s a task which will not be made easier by most pre-20th...
Tuscany’s major red-wine variety, sangiovese, is the source of some great Italian wines, most famously from Chianto Classico – and even more prestigiously from Brunello...
You remember the scene in Sideways, where Miles gets drunk in a winery tasting room, grabs the public spittoon and pours the contents over his...
Badenhorst is a name to reckon with in Cape wine. Probably its Adi representative, at the Swartland base he owns with cousin Hein, is the...
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