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The first impressive wine to come entirely off the Paardeberg was a white: Sadie Family Palladius 2002 (which later started refermenting in bottle, but still!)...
The winemaker of Lammershoek, Jorrie du Plessis, and I went scrabbling in the storage space beneath the cellar, hoping to find a bottle that I’d...
Mundus Novus was the title of a 1503 pamphlet by the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who was thus not only to give his name to America...
It’s only too easy to see the lack of social-dimension change in the South African wine industry in the nearly three decades since the official...
The wines of Jerez – Sherry – are most associated with flor, the yeast which, under certain conditions, grows to more or less thickly coat...
I confess (probably that word indicates a degree of guilty feeling) that I am fond of strong drink. Stronger than most wine, that is. If...
I’ve been putting some effort into Mullineux wines recently – if effort is really the word for an exercise that’s given pleasure and satisfaction. It...
A vertical tasting of Paul Cluver Chardonnay recently (see Christian’s tasting notes), reminded me of the thoroughly odd history of the variety in South Africa....
Three decades of fairly serious engagement with wine and its culture has helped me to learn something about such things as geography and history and...
The story of how syrah came to be called shiraz in Australia (and then South Africa) is a remarkably odd one, replete with confusions –...
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