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I admit to something of a disconnect as I sit here writing about a handful of white wines I’ve drunk recently while the window that...
A few weeks back, I warmly welcomed Paul Nugent’s 2024 book, Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective, as a...
The significance of blending in making wine is probably not sufficiently realised. We tend to think of “blends” as bringing together different varieties or, occasionally,...
Apparently Henry Ford didn’t quite say that “history is bunk” – he blinked, and included “more or less”. He added that he was talking about...
How well do the once-new-wave Swartland wines mature in bottle – both whites (mostly chenin or chenin-based) and reds (mostly syrah or syrah-based)? We’re starting...
Once it’s been successfully nabbed, a good quotation should not be allowed to get away too quickly. I had three of them in my last...
Forty years ago, a number of the Cape’s leading winemakers and producers seemed, for a while, likely to be charged as criminals. In my usual...
Last week wasn’t a good one for the world and humanity (even working off a low basis) but it was a good one for me...
It feels like a confession to say that although I have any number of times driven past the entrance to Allée Bleue on my way...
For the first time in some 25 years, I recently bought a copy of what I still think of as just Platter, although (perhaps because?)...
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