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On reflection, I find myself a little shocked at how small a role chardonnay plays in my drinking life – more say than sauvignon blanc,...
Chardonnay has always been divisive. In a recent article published by business magazine Forbes entitled "Most wine drinkers don’t really understand Chardonnay’, Courtney Schiessl points...
Jay McInerney, the keynote speaker at this year’s Celebration of Chardonnay hosted as always by De Wetshof, is a US writer who made his name...
It’s six years since Grant Dodd (Australian MD of Haskell) and Christian Eedes organised a tasting of Australian and South African chardonnays (see here and...
Having last week mentioned the great chardonnay scandal of the 1980s (see here), it occurred to me that some people might like to know a...
There are remarkably few old chardonnay vines in the Cape. On her old-vine website, viticulturist Rosa Kruger lists just one block over 35 years old:...
Last year saw the “Great Syrah Challenge” take place at Lismore Estate Vineyards in Greyton, an exercise which saw some of South Africa’s top examples...
Yesterday I presented a tasting for five novice wine enthusiasts. Three pairs of wines chosen to be as stylistically as far apart as possible: Stellenrust...
From the Nederburg Auction preview tasting: Many of the examples of yesterday’s Chardonnay, while unquestionably good, were made in a pretty flashy style – ripe...
So Clos du Ciel Chardonnay 2013 from Longridge is launched and will cost R530 a bottle from Wine Cellar, continuing the dramatic premiumisation of this...
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