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According to Porseleinberg viticulturalist and winemaker Callie Louw, the 2014 vintage was cooler and wetter (635mm of rain compared to an average of 450mm) than...
This last weekend saw perhaps the best Swartland Revolution yet – but I suppose that’s excitedly claimed each year by at least a few attendees....
Porseleinberg is Boekenhoutkloof's Swartland project featuring Syrah and whereas I was one of the few not to go into eulogies about the brilliance of the...
How do SA’s Rhône-inspired blends stack up next to straight Shiraz? To make the best wines we possibly can in South Africa, we have to...
The Swartland Independent Producers were strutting their stuff in Riebeek-Kasteel last Saturday – and a great show it was. They drifted into Afrikaans and called...
It would probably be read as a confession if I say that, as a wine critic, I am neither a nationalist nor a patriot. My...
I was wondering if I could find the energy, in the midst of late-year-in-Cape-Town torpor, to rustle up a list of my top local wines...
It's the end of the year which brings with it awkward office parties, dysfunctional family holidays and endless predictions of what the next year will...
There were 25 examples of Shiraz/Syrah nominated for 5 Stars in Platter’s 2015 and it fell to Grape.co.za founder Tim James, sommelier-at-large Higgo Jacobs and...
A doppelgänger for Porseleinberg 2012. That was my immediate impression on opening the Syrah 2012 Vin de Pays L’Ardeche made by Hervé Souhaut (R350 a...
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