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When I wrote last month about Paarl’s unfortunately lacklustre image, there was much rueful agreement that it was a problem. Not least from some producers,...
This was a question I posed at the end of the short article on some trends in South African wine in the about-to-be-published 2021 Platter"...
If there is a South African wine ward with, pro rata, a more, and more varied, international presence than Paarl’s Voor Paardeberg, I don’t know...
Google for “Blackwater” and you get to scroll through an alarming list of stuff about international mercenaries, sewage, and dreadful diseases. Add “wine” to the...
Large, ambitious wineries that operate at both the ultra-premium and more ordinary levels have something of a problem when it comes to image (certainly in...
Some months ago I was lamenting in this column the absence of good, less expensive red Bordeaux wines in South Africa (the actual stuff, not...
I know I’m not alone in thinking that Paarl has a rather lacklustre image as a Wine of Origin region: Paarl thinks so itself. It’s...
The pandemic has its obscure upside for diners-out. While sorely regretting the permanent loss of some restaurants (and hoping more will hold on), there is,...
Which is the hill in question, I wondered, as I stood with Kristopher Tillery looking down over his vineyards. Surely Noble Hill couldn’t refer to...
As I grow older (should I say: as I grow old?), I find myself often discarding new quarter-read books and turning to my bookshelves, or...
