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Recently, I was at a tasting of some very fancy wines from Napa. Someone round the table asked for the alcohol levels. All were 15%...
I love reading about viticulture back in the day. I’m talking here about the time before the mid-19th century. I remember reading one account of...
Wine is in the middle of an existential crisis. The ‘thought leaders’ are out and about, busying themselves with AI-assisted look-alike-posts on Linked-In pointing out...
Are Icon Wines Worth It? Can any wine justify a sticker price of R10 000, or are they all propped up by hype? How much...
The wine world is very sizeist. We wine geeks tend to favour small producers, and to dislike big wine companies (although we seem to make...
Balance is supposed to be one of the four key elements in assessing the quality of wine. The acronym BLIC is often cited as the...
How much does a wine glass matter when it comes to enjoying wine? This is a really interesting, and sometimes contentious topic. All of us...
There are strong opinions about the use of cultured yeasts in winemaking. I need to acknowledge here that some years ago I did some paid...
One of the remarkable things about wine is the association that even normal people have with the fact that here we have a liquid that...
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend a cork versus screwcap tasting in London, held by Stephen Browett of Farr Vintners, one of the top...
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