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Driving up the gravel road into the Aprilskloof to visit Lammershoek just the other week, I was struck by the thought that it must be...
Rain fell generously on the Paardeberg on 16 December 2022. It was clearly a lucky omen for the Johannes family, who took possession of their...
There’s a uniquely mythic element to the place of pontac in Cape wine. No other grape variety has quite its aura amongst those (ok, not...
Having announced last week that South Africans were drinking more wine, I thought it might be a useful quest to find out what they were,...
Here’s an extraordinary statistic about South African wine for you, though it might not appear so at first. In 2022, local consumption of wine was...
Armed mostly with a sense of duty, I arrived at the tasting put on recently in Cape Town by the South Coasters feeling somewhat jaded...
Writing recently about such matters as winery size and appellation size, I made the hardly original, but I think important, point that the great model...
Size matters, as one says with a knowing wink. Or leer. Sometimes it matters in a surprising way. I only learnt fairly recently that the...
I’ve been having further thoughts about the whole question of wards since my article on the subject last week. Second thoughts, corrective thoughts, in fact...
I don’t like disagreeing with Eben Sadie about wine matters. If ever I’ve ventured to do so (about the iniquity of heavy bottles, for example),...
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