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Despite being the source of many excellent wines, observed my colleague Tim James a few weeks ago, Paarl has a rather lacklustre image. ‘Perhaps the...
‘What is history,’ mused Napoleon Bonaparte, ‘but a fable agreed upon?’ My investigation into claims that the exiled emperor drank wine from the Upper Olifants...
In my last column, I presented the Moutons of Brakfontein as a potential source of wine possibly sent to Napoleon while in exile on St...
In my perhaps quixotic quest (read Part One here) to find out whether Napoleon drank wine from the Upper Olifants River area, I stumbled upon...
A media release announcing that today is International Grenache Day prompted me to do a little digging into a couple of admittedly unlikely but nonetheless...
If Marie Crouse née Furter of Zonnebloem emerged as a talented woman winemaker in the 1940s (albeit mostly behind the scenes), she was followed in...
‘South Africa cannot afford to lose men like John de Villiers,’ is what the Sunday Times wrote about the owner of Zonnebloem wine farm in...
After hearing at the end of March that Distell had put both Alto and Plaisir de Merle on the market, I couldn’t help thinking how...
"In the early days South Africa actually had too much wine. Sources mention there was even a wine lake." So wrote Mark Stock in his...
“There was no hope that a government, so strongly influenced by the prohibitionist faction, would ever consider the grant of special bounties to the winegrowers.”...
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