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Last week, US President Donald Trump threatened to tax French wine ‘like they’ve never seen before’ if France goes ahead with a proposal to tax...
Tasting for the annual Platter’s guide has reached a crescendo over the past few weeks, impacting on my free hours to poke around the archives...
Alongside Steenberg and Rustenberg, the third South African wine farm claiming a founding date of 1682 is Blaauwklippen, whose position is indicated on a fairly...
As discussed last month, Steenberg claims to be ‘the Cape’s first farm’ with a founding date of 1682, yet this is also the founding date...
After all the drama and intrigue of the Catharina Ustings story, is Steenberg’s next chapter a bit of an anti-climax? Far from it, in my opinion....
When my last column on early women of the Cape wine industry was published, Steenberg Wine Club Ambassador Johann Theron was quick to point out...
It’s not only around Mother’s Day that I try to imagine the lives of women at the Cape during the first few decades of European...
Before his departure from the Cape on 23 April 1708, dismissed governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel oversaw the grape harvest at his showcase estate...
As the editor wrote last week, Vergelegen seems set for great things again, now that virus-free vines are reaching full maturity following an extensive replanting...
In my last column, I had a look at some of the Cape’s best wines after Constantia. But did you know there was a wine...
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