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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...
Until last week, I hadn’t been in the little old Leef-op-Hoop winery in Stellenbosch’s Jonkershoek valley for I don’t know how many years. Previously it...
The status of Burgundy as a compelling model for winemakers around the world has grown increasingly clear over the last decade and more – accompanied...
“If you seek his monument, look around you.” So runs the epitaph (in Latin) on architect Christopher Wren’s tomb in St Paul’s Cathedral in London....
Browsing aimlessly through the past, I paused at a report I’d made (in Grape 22) on a 2004 tasting of organic wines. Whether it was...
There’s something essentially celebratory about large-format bottles from the outset. It must be because, being unusual and large, they carry a suggestion of excess, and...
Summer is more or less here in Cape Town, with occasional backward glances to winter, and I believe that it’s been resident in Johannesburg, for...
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