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Somewhat irritated by grappling with wax capsules on wine bottles, I recently wrote about how best to cope with them, given their annoyingly varying consistency...
There are only 28 wines on this year’s Cape Winemakers Guild (online-only) auction, compared with 45 last year. Given the (ok, arguably) absurdly high prices...
It seems that the proliferation of synthetic wax capsules on wine bottles – especially those of the more new-wave producers – is something of a...
With the recent decades’ undoubted improvement in Cape wines at all levels, there’s not a lot of really bad stuff out there, is my impression...
The question used to come up amongst wine’s chattering circles – though I haven’t heard or seen it mentioned recently: Are the Cape’s white wines,...
I was interested to see that, above the signature of Roland Peens, Wine Cellar (a significant retailer in Cape Town) announced the release of the...
Bad news about today’s set of new releases from Sadie Family Wines. The most frustrating of which is that the 2019 Ouwingdreeks and 2018 Signature...
One of the more curious aspects of wine-grape planting in the Cape before the latter 19th century is how little of it was for red...
Why blend, rather than sticking to one variety? The more I ponder the question, the clearer to me it is that there’s always yet another...
Everyone connected with the South African wine industry, either professionally or as a “mere” wine drinker, will sympathise with all those in it negatively affected...
