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If site and age of vines are key determinants of not just wine quality but also individuality, the Voorloper Bush Vine Syrah as made by...
Christo le Riche refers to the “hour-glass structure” of Cabernet Sauvignon, which is to say that it can lack mid-palate and hence why Merlot with...
Grapes for the 2021 vintage of Boekenhoutskloof Syrah are entirely from the Swartland, 90% from the operation’s Porseleinberg property and 10% from Goldmine on Kasteelberg....
The Fairview cellar has long championed Syrah and the Lanner Hill 2021 is a cracker. Grapes from the Charles Back-owned Darling farm of the same...
The 2020 vintage of the Reserve Red from Polkadraai Hills property Reyneke seems particularly understated. Grapes from a southerly facing vineyard on slightly shallower granite...
Paulus Wine Co sees Paul Jordaan, Sadie Family Wines winemaker, and partner Pauline Roux, who hails from Southern France, working together to make two examples...
When Schalk Opperman left Swarland property Lammershoek for Quoin Rock in Stellenbosch in 2020, his assistant winemaker Jorrie du Plessis was briefly installed as winemaker....
Gerhard Smith, formally employed at Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge cellar Creation, also makes wines under his own label called Die Kat se Snor (“The Cat’s Whiskers”). Tasting...
Jocelyn Hogan Wilson started her own label in 2014, now well established as one of SA’s leading indie winemakers. She works with bough-in fruit, and...
Where to place Stellenbosch property Keermont in the hierarchy of South African fine wine producers? Some wineries shoot to fame, whereas there’s more of a...
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