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Tarragon Chenin Blanc 2023 is a new wine from Spice Route that joins Saffron Rosé 2023 and Chakalaka 2021 as part of the Swartland cellar’s...
At R125 a bottle, the Chenin Blanc 2019 from Spice Route offers amazing quality relative to price. Grapes from a 1978 Swartland vineyard, harvest involved...
Tim James wrote recently about the new Obscura range from Spice Route, the wines made in large terracotta vessels known as qvevri imported from Georgia,...
The Flagship Syrah 2000 from Spice Route is notable in that it was made by Eben Sadie in the same year as he put together...
Charles Back of Fairview and Spice Route last night endured a brutal farm attack on his farm in Paarl. He was beaten up with a...
There are stacks and stacks of damn tasty, cheap as chips Chenin Blanc from the Swartland, whether it be from the large-scale Riebeek Cellars or...
Earlier this year, I rated the Malabar 2012, the Rhône-style red blend from Charles Back’s Swarland operation Spice Route, 90 on the 100-point quality scale...
Spice Route was acquired by Charles Back in the late 1990s out of conviction that the Swartland was utilised and the maiden vintage of this...
With Ken Forrester The FMC 2012 selling for R350 a bottle from the tasting room and DeMorgenzon Reserve Chenin Blanc 2013 chasing hard at R197.50...
Don’t believe those stick-in-the-muds who say that chocolate doesn’t pair with wine. When done well, there are few things as deliciously decadent. It’s a match...
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