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When the Elgin Pinot Noir 2009 from Newton Johnson was reviewed by Angela Lloyd for the 2011 edition of Platter’s, she rated it 4½ Stars...
Sommelier-turned-winemaker Carsten Migliarina has had made wine under his own label since 2002 – total production still only a mere 400 cases so you don’t...
Not terribly impressed with Hunter’s Gold and Savanah, the mainstream products that masquerade as cider? “Estate Grown Apples”, “Not from concentrate”, “Hand-picked apples” and “No...
Spioenkop, tended by Belgian couple Koen and Hannelore Roose, is one of the newer Elgin properties – own vineyards established in 2008 and first bottlings...
When Paul Cluver Estate some years back ceased bottling their cabernet grapes under their own label – to concentrate on whites and pinot – I...
At the end of 2013, there were a total of 168.36ha of Riesling planted in South Africa which put it just ahead of Gewurztraminer but...
It’s one of the signs of the maturing Cape wine revolution that winegrowing areas are tending to associations with particular varieties. It’s pretty safe to...
While the Clonal Selection Elgin Chardonnay 2012 from Richard Kershaw MW has been much celebrated including a rating of 5 Stars in the current edition...
Big jump in quality from the maiden vintage 2012 to the 2013 of the Amatra Chenin Blanc as made by Catherine Marshall from Elgin grapes....
The Buys family acquired Vrede en Lust in the warm-climate Simonsberg-Paarl ward in 1996 and acknowledging that white wines of great finesse were going to...
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