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
I still have, well worn by now, the T-shirt I was given some six years ago on a visit to the Hemelrand cellar on Hemel-en-Aarde...
Which of two contradictory things is harder to believe: (1) That Chris and Andrea Mullineux’s Syrah and White Blend are now already into their second...
I There’s something particularly lovely about a curving vineyard, gently adapting itself to a hillside. They must be rare, given the exigencies of the trellising...
When, in the bad old days—oh, a decade and more back—the printed Wine Magazine had a focus on a woman winemaker it would invariably, as...
As I stumbled (just a bit) back into the kitchen in search of more—more of what I wasn’t quite sure yet—I suddenly thought: People who...
The debate around wine glasses usually centres on their ability to bring out aroma, flavour and structure, and for the more shallow of us, there’s...
I have become so used to the (self-awarded) luxury of avoiding the nonsense of scoring wines that I find it more problematical each year making...
What does one do at a sleepless 3.13 AM (and whoever it was that pointed out that the numbers on the clock in such circumstances...
I’m plunged in the middle of the Platter wine-tasting season. For a month or so, a lot of varied vinous expressions of alcohol have been...
A while back I reported on the depressingly small volume of “serious” – indeed, basically dry – wines drunk in this country, as opposed to...
