Everything to do with South African fine wine. Wine magazine was published from October 1993 until September 2011 and now lives on in digital form as winemag.co.za
Spending three months or so tasting wines and brandies for Platter is always interesting and a privilege, and frequently a pleasure. But it does mean...
I sometimes peevishly wonder if the whole “Family Wines” and “Family Vineyards” thing is not getting a bit excessive. Two decades back the word “Family”...
Billy Hughes – an engineer born in Argentina, settled in South Africa in 1990 – made a cleverer choice than he realised when he and...
I’ve rather lost patience with (and anyway can’t regularly afford) tasting-menu fine dining – the sort that involves peering into the depths of a large...
June saw Avondale release the first Cape wines made in qvevri – those onion-shaped, Georgian clay pots buried up to their necks in earth. In...
It’s easy sitting in Cape Town and hearing reports of the city’s reservoirs filling nicely and imagining that the drought is over. In many parts,...
Auction house Strauss & Co held their second wine auction of the year, in conjunction with Wine Cellar and Higgo Jacobs. The main difference from...
Things are looking good at the Cape Winemakers Guild. I suggested in my last column that there’s a renewed spirit of camaraderie and wine-excitement in...
I was recently privileged to be a guest at one of the amazing tastings that the Cape Winemakers Guild members regularly put on for each...
An evening spent at dinner with some mature La Motte wines was all the more pleasurable as I was at the time plunged into Platter...
