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It seems that the Cape wine revolution is not going to allow any grape variety an easy death or even a quiet, inglorious existence. It’s...
Time to move on to some actual wines. I wrote some weeks back about the costs – financial and emotional – of having what might,...
I wrote recently about the problem (pretty much a first-world one, I confess) of having rather too much expensively stored wine, and then had the...
The buzz in the room, the quality of the wine, the solidarity of the (mostly) youthful winemakers, and their obvious shared confidence, pleasure and excitement...
The breadth, depth and quality of the Cape’s serious chenin offering is remarkable. We all know this, I think, perhaps to the point of being...
No category of the South African wine industry does better on international competitions than brandy – by a pretty long way, I’d say. This year,...
Surely many watchers of TV series (or films for that matter) must react with some smug pleasure or irritation the incidental references to a particular...
Wine storage – especially that of my own wine - has been on my mind this past week. Firstly, I’ve been reminded by the coming...
Koueberg (Cold Mountain) sounds a good place to be growing grapes as temperatures inexorably rise. On its lower slopes, in the Sondagskloof ward of the...
You might think Adi Badenhorst has done well enough with his wines, but he confesses to an ambition as yet unachieved: he’d like to win...
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