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
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Chateau Musar, the internationally famous and undoubtedly idiosyncratic wine from the Lebanon has a few links with South Africa. One has just occurred to me:...
I rather hate to admit it, but my most interesting and delightfully satisfying Cape wine of the last few weeks was a sauvignon blanc. A...
The beginning of another year (here’s wishing you all the best!) and, what’s more, a year that’s the 50th anniversary of a crucial event in...
There was, of course, that brief Covid-inspired ban on South African liquor movement in 2020 that affected exports of Cape wine. And, presumably, troubled markets...
With the general leaps in quality of Cape wine, which types of wine do we actually need to drink foreign examples of? (With “we” and...
Who’d have thought it (apart from the very well informed, of course)? First, that there is a small but significant wine industry in Japan; second,...
I came across what is the earliest allusion to Cape wine I know in English (as opposed to Dutch) – some words from 1690, just...
If the Stanford Wine Route has not loomed large in your wine life thus far, well, me too. In fact I don’t think I knew...
It’s certain that at the more ambitious, conscious level of wine appreciation, South Africans are now happier to accept that many white wines don’t have...
Last time I was in a properly curmudgeonly mood I wrote some stuff about labels that irritated me for some or other reason. This time...
