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Hello – my name is Tim and I am a heavy drinker. Like most people professionally involved in the wine industry, that is; and I’m...
We all – winemakers too – seem to blithely agree that great wines are made in the vineyard. So why so much attention to what...
The decisions of other people – especially those we scarcely know – are always pretty strange, I suppose, by definition. Because they’re made according to...
It seems to be an ever-ripe question. Is there some evolution in the way the sometimes beloved, sometime execrated “national grape” (as the Pinotage Association...
Well, no, the winery hasn’t exactly gone hipster – but the word was Eben’s, when I mentioned to him that I’d found 2021 Soldaat, the...
When writing a few weeks back about some of the viticultural statistics recently offered to a grateful world by Sawis (well, I at least am...
Every few years for much of the past two decades, I tried to get a consensus answer to this question by polling a group of...
The question of graciano came up yesterday during the chatty part of our tasting group’s monthly look at foreign wines. Why it did, I can’t...
At the risk of irritating some and boring others, I want to consider an aspect of the continuing debate that has had a little reflorescence...
The Hemel-en-Aarde and Constantia have some some things in common as wine-growing areas. For a start they both have coolish maritime climates, and both are...
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