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In my last column, which looked at Napoleon’s fondness for vin de Constance (Constantia wine), I referred to pioneering wine critic André Jullien’s encyclopaedic Topographie...
‘Napoleon really didn’t enjoy himself on St Helena but [the Constantia wine] helped a bit,’ said Lisa Honan, Her Excellency the Governor of Saint Helena,...
I’ve previously written about the role of slaves in the SA wine industry, and not only from the point of view of anonymous, thankless, back-breaking...
At the recent 2019 Vinpro Information Day, chairman Anton Smuts said wine producers are accepting prices that are ‘too low’ – far lower than what...
In my last column, I introduced the Colijns of Constantia who were all but written out of history during the Apartheid years because of their...
When it comes to the history of Constantia, there are certain stories that every wine lover has heard time and time again. Napoleon drinking ‘vin...
It’s time to introduce Constantia, the vast farm awarded to Cape commander Simon van der Stel on 13 July 1685, the sub-divisions of which go...
When I started writing about the very earliest history of South African wine a couple of months ago, I ruffled a few feathers with my...
In his article on the first grape varieties planted at the Cape, Tim James says: ‘Viticulture was not much of a science in those days;...
‘At the Rondebosje, the vineyard is flourishing lustily,’ wrote the fourth commander of the Cape, Jacob Borghorst, in a despatch to the Lords XVII on...
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