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A few weeks back someone kindly gave me a book, of which he’d received three copies as Christmas presents. It was easy to see why...
That proverbial Martian on an exploratory visit to our troubled little corner of the universe might well be puzzled – even after grasping the basic...
Beloved of the cognoscenti, even if many of them would struggle to rank its greatness vis-à-vis chardonnay (while some are sure it’s number one, for...
A great vinous treat last week led to some sober and sombre reflections. No need to tell the full, complicated tale of the occasion (a...
There are various reasons why a serious wine producer might want to have a “second” label – usually less expensive and sometimes thought of as...
The easy answer to that question must be “a helluva lot of people”. In 2021 well over 13 million litres of it were sold varietally...
In recent years Cape pinot noir has shared in the large price increases common to most top-end wine, perhaps especially reds. It hasn’t reached, though,...
There must be few of us wine lovers who haven’t felt the urge to save a bottle – the actual glass bottle, I mean, emptied...
A month into 2023 and the Cape’s wine-grape harvest is under way in the warmer areas and with the earlier-ripening varieties. The producer organisation VinPro...
Comments on an article I wrote last October about reclaiming ignored or despised varieties, especially colombard, got sidetracked into discussion of quality claims about the...
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