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The Hemel-en-Aarde and Constantia have some some things in common as wine-growing areas. For a start they both have coolish maritime climates, and both are...
The most expensive bottle of chardonnay listed by Cape Town merchants Wine Cellar is, unsurprisingly a burgundy: Henri Boillot Montrachet Grand Cru 2019, at a...
I remember a wine conversation with my brother, many years ago, in which he commented that he couldn’t afford to buy the sort of wine...
On reflection, it is rather odd that Sadie Family Wines, so associated with the renaissance of the Swartland and with its treasure of old chenin...
The first impressive wine to come entirely off the Paardeberg was a white: Sadie Family Palladius 2002 (which later started refermenting in bottle, but still!)...
The winemaker of Lammershoek, Jorrie du Plessis, and I went scrabbling in the storage space beneath the cellar, hoping to find a bottle that I’d...
Mundus Novus was the title of a 1503 pamphlet by the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who was thus not only to give his name to America...
It’s only too easy to see the lack of social-dimension change in the South African wine industry in the nearly three decades since the official...
The wines of Jerez – Sherry – are most associated with flor, the yeast which, under certain conditions, grows to more or less thickly coat...
I confess (probably that word indicates a degree of guilty feeling) that I am fond of strong drink. Stronger than most wine, that is. If...
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