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An almost inevitable topic came up for discussion among those attending the recent grand match between some old Cape stars and their international equivalents: the...
When this platform was still in print, I embarked on a series called ‘Legends’. The aim was to profile the trailblazers and innovators who shaped...
Cape Legends is the premium wine division of Distell and when it comes to sheer wine quality, I’m on record as saying that the wines...
It’s hard not to view Stellenbosch cellar Alto as a victim of its own success. Take the red blend known as Rouge. Just under 400...
Before the start of judging for this year’s Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show, the traditional tasting of old South African wines – whites at least...
After rating Alto Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 86/100, a somewhat mediocre score for a bottle of wine costing R149, I wondered if I wasn’t guilty of...
A bit like when your favourite indie band signs with a major record company, Stellenbosch property Alto lost a lot of its mystique when it...
With the 2009 vintage, the Bordeaux-style red blend from Dombeya Wines owned by American businessman Preston Haskell changes name from Altus to Fenix, this the...
Billed as “A Night of a Thousand Glasses”, it was more like “The Infinitely Prolonged Evening of Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine and a Half...
Stellenbosch farm Alto has had only four winemakers since it was first established, these being Manie Malan from (1920 to 1956), Piet du Toit (1959...
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