Tag: Tim James

Pinot noir day? Says who? I don’t know, but it’s somehow agreed by enough people that tomorrow is it: 18 August. So, as with...

Business magnates don’t always make the right decisions – or appoint the right people to do so – when it comes to their wine...

Before anyone bitterly accuses me of being unable to write anything without mentioning cinsaut let me admit that it’s occupied more than its fair...

Gottfried Mocke (reinventor of Chamonix as a fine wine producer and now winemaker at Boekenhoutskloof) last week presented his Cape Winemakers Guild colleagues and...

It’s been mentioned on Winemag more than once that the number of Cape cinsauts has grown year on year – most of them on...

There aren’t many genuinely humorous wine labels that I can think of – some that are jokey, perhaps, in a calculated, advertising-agency or too-cute...

“2017 comes with much turmoil”, Eben Sadie announced at his latest trade tasting release. (I wrote here about the 2016 Columella and Palladius simultaneously...

“My new life is in the vineyards”, said Eben Sadie at a recent trade tasting of his new releases – the two signature blends...