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It feels like a confession to say that although I have any number of times driven past the entrance to Allée Bleue on my way...
For the first time in some 25 years, I recently bought a copy of what I still think of as just Platter, although (perhaps because?)...
Pieter Ferreira and Abrie Beeslaar have quite a bit in common. Primarily, they’re two of this century’s finest Cape winemakers, best known for their work...
When I went out to Franschhoek early last Friday, some two weeks after the devastating run of fires had begun, there was little to be...
A silly, sentimental and conventional thought it doubtless was – but there you are. Or there I was, at the small and rather joyful Cinsault...
The year’s beginning is a good time to look back – and further than just the last 365 days that brought us to this pass....
The closing months of this year saw the deaths of two notable members of the immediately past or waning generation of winemakers – heroes of...
The notification of sulphitic presence on (nearly all) bottles of wine is, more than anything useful, a sign of lurking prohibitionist tendences on the part...
Some recent comments about older Sadie Treinspoors, made to a column of mine from as far back as 2019 (before Covid!), reminded me that there...
Recently I asked Eben Sadie what had meant the most to him of the many international or local accolades or lofty ratings he’d achieved. He...
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