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Mick Craven of the eponymous wine label says that the summer of 2024 was “bloody hot and windy” resulting in reduced yields, the harvest early...
Mick Craven who makes wine under the eponymous label along with wife Jeanine describes 2023 as “challenging” on account of rain throughout the growing season...
Mick and Jeanine Craven of Stellenbosch use the notion of “attentive intervention” to describe their approach to winemaking rather than the more hackneyed “minimal intervention”...
Mick Craven and Jeanine Craven of Craven Wines make single-variety wines from single vineyards across the greater Stellenbosch area. Mick says the 2022 harvest was...
2022 was the first vintage that Mick and Janine Craven processed entirely in their own cellar situated in Stellenbosch Agri-Park, permanent premises seemingly contributing to...
“Attentive but not manipulative” is how Mick Craven describes his and wife Jeanine’s approach to winemaking, 2021 being the first vintage in their own cellar,...
With summer beckoning, reds which are light in body and lend themselves to be serve chilled become the order of the day and to that...
Though often made to use white wine, Pinot Gris is a relatively dark-skinned variety and Mick and Jeanine Craven aren’t inclined to waste the that...
Here are our top wines of last month: Metzer Montane Chenin Blanc 2018 – 96 (read original review here) Craven The Firs Vineyard Syrah 2019...
I had thought that I wouldn’t write about last week’s Cape Town tasting of the new releases of Van Loggerenberg and Craven as I knew...
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