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There was some cheap drama a while ago when it emerged that Jordan Cobblers Hill 2005 labeled for the Woolworths Classic range which was rated...
Donovan Rall started out studying a BSc in psychology at the University of Stellenbosch but then the wine bug bit and he switched to winemaking....
KWV The Mentors Grenache Blanc 2010, 5 Stars in Platter’s 2012 and one of my top 12 wines of last year, really is outstanding as...
Ataraxia Chardonnay 2007 – mostly from Hemel-en-Aarde and Elgin vineyards, fermented and matured for 10 months in French oak, a third new, abv 13.5%. Rated...
The wines of Colmant in Franschhoek have featured prominently in my life recently. After our second daughter Eliza was borne just over two weeks ago,...
How easy is it to tell the superlative from the super-quaffer? That was the theme of a social tasting last night. The line-up was tasted...
Lunch yesterday with Hennie Coetzee and Maggie Mostert of Batonage.com at Mexican restaurant El Burro in Green Point. Huge fans of the wines of Jean...
A debate I’ve had among my colleagues tasting for Platter’s 2012 concerns the merits of tasting by category versus those of tasting by producer. Tasting...
I’m not one to dismiss single-variety Sauvignon Blanc as inherently inferior à la some of our more high-profile critics and anybody making wine in the...
A continuous point of debate while judging the Unwooded Sauvignon Blanc Class during this year’s Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show was how much methoxypyrazine character...
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