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When I wrote about my emptying brandy stocks a month or so back, there were some significant consequences for me, two of them motivated by...
Writing last week about Chris Keet’s First Verse, and having mentioned how rare it was for a producer to have a portfolio of just one...
It’s rare in South Africa for a prestigious brand to produce just one wine in solitary splendour. Chris Keet, though, seems to be making a...
How long to put down wine to maximise its potential is a perennial and difficult question, quite apart from personal drinking tastes. It’s a question...
I do realise that this title would itself provide ammunition to the prohibitionist lobby, but I’ll try to mitigate the effect. In the course of...
Recently I suffered, you might say, a coincidence involving an article on this website. The bit that happened elsewhere was in a collection of trivial...
My sherry geekiness of a few weeks back prompted me to think about South African sherry-style wine. Not much else around here is likely to...
I’m still looking for some specially great value local chardonnay. But having disappointingly realised a few weeks back that it’s pretty naive to hope for...
I’m certainly not the wine-geek I once was. More and more I care less and less about such things as pH, time spent on skins...
I was strolling past the supermarket wine shelves, idly wondering if I should try to find some more bargains that would be acceptable to demanding,...
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