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Piet Steenkamp is the fourth generation of his family to farm Bottelary property Groenland,150ha currently under vine, the likes of Distell, KWV and Leeuwenkuil being...
If 2019 was generally a vintage of restraint for Stellenbosch reds, then the wines from 2020 seem that more luscious and open. The 2019 from...
Kayleigh Hattingh, assistant winemaker at Bottelary property Kaapzicht, also has her own Rebel Rebel label, her second set of releases now out:Rebel Rebel Colombar 2022Price:...
The Landscape Series is the top-end offering from Gabriëlskloof, this collection showcasing the Bot River property’s top sites as well as specially selected vineyards from...
The Grenache Syrah 2022 from the acclaimed Reenen Borman under his Kottabos label isn’t super-intense but it is exceedingly drinkable (I want to write “smashable”,...
Lledoner Pelut is thought to be a mutation of Grenache, the difference in the variant form being that the underside of the leaves is downier,...
The Crystallum project sees winemaker Peter-Allan Finlayson specialising in the Burgundian varieties, the range underpinned by two multi-origin bottlings, these being The Agnes Chardonnay and...
Klein Amoskuil is the Swartland farm owned by Charles Back where the Spice Route wine brand began in 1998. More recently, some significant developments have...
The excellent Patatsfontien Chenin Blanc as made by Reenen Borman from Montagu grapes (see review of 2022 here) has always had a sibling wine in...
Wade Bales, a wine merchant and négociant for the past 30 years, believes strongly in the power of wine regionality as a marketing tool. After...
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