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There’s a good chance that younger readers of this website will not even have heard (vaguely, perhaps?) of Capaia, a fairly large wine estate in...
We know about old vines and old wines – and their age makes a difference. But what about old wine-drinkers? Does age bring changes, for...
We wine writers don’t get out enough (as I’ve said before and will no doubt say again). Most of us rely too much on what...
The wonderful Kogelberg Biosphere, home to 1 880 species of fynbos (and with a number of grape varieties as guests), asks on its website: “The...
What is probably the world’s newest grape variety (for a while at least) has its past firmly rooted in three centuries or more of Cape...
Great wine is made in the vineyard, they say – essentially claiming little more than that you need good grapes for good wine, and the...
Questions around the blending of grape varieties have been milling around in my mind this past week, prompted by a comment and query on my...
The Swartland has, like the ANC flag, three colours: In summer there’s the pervasive ochreous gold of the harvested wheatfields, in winter the brilliant green...
If you offer yourself as a wine critic there’s firstly objectivity to at least consider. It’s something only achievable once you understand your own instinctual...
We can safely assume that few wine countries or regions have specific legislation about wines made from, um… single vines. In fact, I’d venture a...
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