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When Bruwer Raats bought his small farm on the rolling Polkadraai Hills in 2005, the area was, he says, the cheapest in Stellenbosch, rather despised...
A friend of mine – seriously interested in wine, though not ridiculously so – was telling me of the pleasure he had in discovering the...
As decent wines get ever pricier, it was good a few months ago to find (from DeMorgenzon) an affordable pinot that was eminently drinkable despite...
The general statistics about pinot noir in the Cape puzzle me. The last ten years have seen a proliferation of pinot labels, yet the pinot...
At the turn of the century, at a big 2000 WOSA tasting in London, Boekenhoutskloof’s Marc Kent (winemaker and already more than that) was chatting...
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...
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