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If being a national player in the world of global wine can be likened to the role of a protagonist in a boxing match, Covid-19...
A few weeks ago, our esteemed editor broke the industry-wide silence around alcohol and trauma. There was a flurry of comment and then suddenly the...
The 2021 vintage looms while South Africa's third prohibition in less than 10 months shuts off the supply of wines, spirits, beers and liqueurs to...
No one is likely to dispute the theory and practice of regional specialisation. You'd be surprised to find even the most eccentric grape grower in...
It's easy to knock the Platter's South African Wine Guide, almost as easy as it would be to find a corrupt politician at an ANC...
At the turn of the millennium South Africa boasted a little over 1 000 hectares of shiraz, much of it virused and very little of...
We find ourselves in the midst of a concentrated and very intense show judging and results season. Covid-19 made this inevitable, though, to be fair,...
They used to call Pinot Noir the “heartbreak grape” - apparently because it was so difficult to produce a decent example, even in Burgundy, and...
The shrinking economy and the collapse of the discretionary goods market will see millions of bottles of wine in the trade at fire-sale prices. When...
For around 50 years Bordeaux had the smartest pricing and marketing model for the sale of high-end consumer goods. Six months after the vintage and...
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