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Mahalia Kotjane grew up in Vosloorus on the East Rand. A grade 9 school project on microorganisms saw her researching the role that yeast plays...
There’s a song by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age called “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” and the same might equally apply...
The Syrah 2014 from Greyton property is breath-taking. Involving 40% whole-bunch fermentation, winemaker Samantha O’Keefe initially put the wine into barrique but anxious that she...
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...
Tyrrel Myburgh, winemaker at Paarl winery Joostenberg, seemed mildly surprised when I professed to like his 2013 Syrah (which now bears the moniker “Klippe Kou”...
Are we under-rating our new-wave reds? And are local consumers paying enough for them? By way of calibration, a bottle of Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage 2011,...
Team Boekenhoutskloof is doing some pioneering work with top-end Swartland Syrah in the form of Porseleinberg but the Porcupine Ridge Syrah at the other end...
The Syrah 2012 from Stellenbosch property Oldenburg Vineyards received a gold medal as well as being judged the best example from South Africa at the...
The new-wave Syrahs from the Swartland seem particularly changeable in the bottle and perhaps I will come to love the 2013 vintage from Mullineux but...
By all accounts, 2013 was a much more favourable vintage than 2012 in the Swartland and it shows particularly in the case of the single-vineyard...
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