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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...
I celebrated the advent of the new year with a bottle of Kanonkop Cabernet Sauvignon 2000. It was always a lesser vintage of this great...
There are basically two types of back-label, leaving out aesthetic considerations (which is after all what most producers do). All of them are required to...
As December implacably advances, for many of us it’s the year-end that preoccupies, but for the grape farmer – and winemakers readying their tanks and...
One expectation that I’m adjusting in my mind these days, as I try to pay systematic attention to some of the older wines I drink,...
The early editions of the Platter's guide (from 1980) carried substantial notes on imported wines available in South Africa – mostly, but not only, French...
The notion of elegance came up in a bit of correspondence about Christian Eedes’s review of Kanonkop Black Label Pinotage 2020. One of Christian’s points...
The fervour of discussion (in our geeky little world, that is) about “natural wine” seems to have abated. No need to debate endlessly about what...
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