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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...
It seemed for a while we’d lost one of the Cape’s great wine estates – well, not so much the estate as the greatness. But,...
It’s all very well drinking the stuff and knowing the grapes its made from and suchlike, but we could also do with a perspective of...
After some recent devotion to what one commenter rather nicely called “musing”, I thought it time to turn to facts. Though I’ve always found that...
Wine is not so much about wine as about the drinkers of wine; more: the individual drinker of wine. It’s your tastebuds, your DNA, your...
A style of wine-tasting note not much discussed when the topic comes up (as it must do occasionally, and has done recently a few time...
Have you counted your fungiform papillae recently? You have quite a number of them on your tongue, probably 400-600; rosy, supposedly mushroom-shaped things that each...
It’s salutary to be reminded occasionally that as wine-drinkers we are – up to a point, or beyond a point – alone. That is, with...
The personality of Eben Sadie is so dominant and his association with the winery he has built up over the last quarter-century has been so...
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