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Darling property Groote Post has just launched Pinch of Salt Chardonnay 2023 (price: R220 a bottle). A replanting process featuring superior clones was started nine...
Does the wine that could have been Magentic North 2022 deserve declassification? Grapes from two ungrafted Skurfberg vineyards, Chris Alehit felt it wasn’t quite up...
Volumes of the Shiraz from Bot River cellar Luddite were greatly reduced in 2015 through to 2020 firstly due to the infamous drought and then...
The ascent of the Damascene label continues. A partnership between winemaker Jean Smit and David Curl, former owner of Bordeaux’s Chateau Gaby, grapes are sourced...
The Moya Meaker wines, as made by Jean Smit, come from Habibi farm in Elgin, owned by David Curl and wife Genevieve Hamilton-Brown – Genevieve’s...
This year marks 20 years since May de Lencquesaing, of Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande fame, purchased Stellenbosch property Glenelly. Maiden vintage of the...
The Newton Johnson label may date from 1997 but the first Chardonnay and Pinot Noir bottlings entirely from their own Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley fruit only...
What is “transparency” in wine? If it’s the intention on the part of the production team to show the influence of site with the minimum...
If 2017 and 2021 are generally highly collectible vintages for South African fine wine, then 2020 simply isn’t in the same league. Boekenhoutskloof, of course,...
The good reputation of the 2021 vintage grows and grows. Thelema in Stellenbosch describes it as “A warm, dry vintage with a late start, resulted...
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