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Since the extension of South Africa’s lockdown, there’s apparently been a spike not only in illicit activity concerning the sale, production and transportation of liquor...
Coronavirus is here, as Tim James wrote over the weekend, prompting me to look at a ‘pestilence’ that arrived at the Cape exactly 307 years...
‘I do not think this wine can be bettered at the Cape today,’ wrote C de Bosdari about Alto Rouge some 70 years ago –...
Early last year I was commissioned by the KWV to research the history of Roodeberg ahead of the once-iconic brand’s 70th birthday. It was a...
Just over three centuries ago, in 1719, the German astronomer and surveyor Peter Kolbe published his comprehensive Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum, a detailed account of...
One lovely aspect of South African wine history is the evolution of our so-called Cape Dutch architecture, featuring beautiful white-rendered finishes, gracious curves and elegant...
Botha is a fairly common surname in South Africa, with examples in the wine industry (off the top of my head) including Dawie Botha (Anthonij...
Believe it or not, there used to be more Pontac planted in South Africa than Chenin Blanc. The red-fleshed teinturier grape, originally from southwestern France...
On a circa 1688-1690 map that shows the oldest Stellenbosch farms in the names of their first owners, including Roelof Pasman of Rustenberg and Gerrit...
This week Klein Constantia celebrated three decades of Vin de Constance with the launch of its 2016 vintage – and a taste of its maiden...
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