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No category of the South African wine industry does better on international competitions than brandy – by a pretty long way, I’d say. This year,...
Surely many watchers of TV series (or films for that matter) must react with some smug pleasure or irritation the incidental references to a particular...
Wine storage – especially that of my own wine - has been on my mind this past week. Firstly, I’ve been reminded by the coming...
Koueberg (Cold Mountain) sounds a good place to be growing grapes as temperatures inexorably rise. On its lower slopes, in the Sondagskloof ward of the...
You might think Adi Badenhorst has done well enough with his wines, but he confesses to an ambition as yet unachieved: he’d like to win...
Hello – my name is Tim and I am a heavy drinker. Like most people professionally involved in the wine industry, that is; and I’m...
We all – winemakers too – seem to blithely agree that great wines are made in the vineyard. So why so much attention to what...
The decisions of other people – especially those we scarcely know – are always pretty strange, I suppose, by definition. Because they’re made according to...
It seems to be an ever-ripe question. Is there some evolution in the way the sometimes beloved, sometime execrated “national grape” (as the Pinotage Association...
Well, no, the winery hasn’t exactly gone hipster – but the word was Eben’s, when I mentioned to him that I’d found 2021 Soldaat, the...
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