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If you haven’t already heard the portentous rumblings, be warned that the next sentence is unquestionably not the last you’ll be hearing of this matter....
I’ve just bought some modest, but hopefully pretty decent, wine for those days or evenings when I’m feeling a bit mean either with myself or...
Writing last week about the significance of the launch of the maiden, 2009, vintage of the Sadie Ouwingerdreeks, I was suddenly struck by the thought...
On Saturday I took what felt like the momentous step of opening my set of six Sadie Ouwingerdreeks wines from the maiden vintage, 2009. The...
I’ve been thinking again of the names of wines and wine places in the Cape. Names are words, and many of them rather beautiful, especially...
It was a steep and sudden learning curve for me about the possibilities of garnacha. Grenache, if you prefer, though really we should call it...
There are, inevitably, different bits of more-or-less arguable evidence to adduce in speaking about the relative strength of white and red wines in South Africa....
There are three fine estates at the crest of the Helshoogte Pass, just outside Stellenbosch town. As I turned on to Thelema’s gravel, I thought...
Recently, within the space of a few days, I visited two historic, neglected wine estates that are being handsomely invested in and revived by Germans:...
Have you noticed how few comments there are from women on this website? Is it a feminist issue? I confess that August passed without my...
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