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Opinion & Analysis

Greg Sherwood MW: The Responsibility of a Wine Critic

14 November 2019

Here in the UK the clocks have now gone back an hour and the wintery nights are rapidly drawing in. Yup, it really does get dark before 4pm a la...

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Sauv-Sem Blend/Wooded Sauvignon Blanc Report 2019

13 November 2019

The seventh annual Sauv-Sem Blend/Wooded Sauvignon Blanc Report is now out. There were 29 blend entries (from 24 producers) and 23 wooded Sauvignon Blanc entries (from 21 producers) and these...

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Opinion & Analysis

SA Wine History: The original ‘Dirty Little Secret’ at what is now Ken Forrester Vineyards

13 November 2019

Botha is a fairly common surname in South Africa, with examples in the wine industry (off the top of my head) including Dawie Botha (Anthonij Rupert), RJ Botha (Kleine Zalze),...

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Reviews

Restless River new releases

12 November 2019

Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley property Restless River is increasingly known for producing a benchmark Chardonnay but perhaps it’s worth pondering the impact of the cool-climate Cabernet Sauvignon that they also make...

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Reviews

Eikendal Charisma 2018

8 November 2019

There are few more consistent red blends intended for everyday drinking than Charisma from Eikendal, the current-release 2018 rating 90 on the 100-point scale in this year’s Signature Red Blend...

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Wine Cellar DavidNadia Aristargos 2018

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Paying for content

11 November 2019

Are consumers willing to pay for online content? It appears that Winemag.co.za readers are. Last week, we announced that in future we would only report on the outcomes of blind...

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Meerlust appoints Wim Truter as new winemaker

8 November 2019

According to a media release issued by KWV, its chief winemaker, Wim Truter, will be leaving in May 2020 to join Meerlust in Stellenbsoch. News broke last month that Chris...

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Tim James: Terroir, imagination and flair at Restless River

8 November 2019

In April 2013 I visited Craig and Anne Wessels’ small Klein Hemel farm in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde (the first journalist to do so, I like to think; I went on...

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Melvyn Minnaar: Storytelling and wine marketing

7 November 2019

Stories are good. And even better with wine. It may have become a cliché in contemporary PR talk (often because it’s a flimsy marketing effort), but there is no doubt...

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Restaurant reviews

Farro, Illovo

12 November 2019

Farro is a small and stylish space with Bentwood chairs and appealingly unfussy candlelit tables. It opened over a year ago and every bloggy-hipster type in town has long since...

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Reports

Prescient Chardonnay Report 2019

15 October 2019

The ninth annual Chardonnay Report sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient is now out. There were 93 entries from 65 producers and these were tasted blind (labels out of...

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Best Value Tastings

Best Value Tastings 2019: Results

4 October 2019

Over the past few months, Winemag.co.za has convened a series of tastings aimed at finding the best wines costing between R60 to R120 a bottle. Our intention was to identify...

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Reports

Tonnellerie Saint Martin Pinot Noir Report 2019

17 September 2019

In conjunction with Tonnellerie Saint Martin, Winemag.co.za is pleased to release the third annual Pinot Noir Report. There were 35 entries from 24 producers for this year’s competition. The line-up...