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South Africa lost one of its only two certified biodynamic producers (the other being Reyneke) when Radford Dale bought Elgin Ridge late last year. A...
Looking recently for something to drink in the semi-chaos of a wine fridge (I seem incapabable of updating records, and this cooler needs a thorough...
Government-ordained restrictions on liquor sales under Covid regulations brought out predictable (and not unreasonable) mutterings and shouts about anti-liquor tendencies in the governing ANC. But...
Is it curious that it’s nearly always wines at the cheaper end that are promoted as “good value”? Think: If you saw an article on...
Sometimes it’s only too easy to forget how rapidly things have changed, and that is certainly true for many aspects of South African wine. A...
Iona was still harvesting its maiden sauvignon blanc in the last week of March 2001, wrote Angela Lloyd in Grape magazine a few months later,...
Chateau Musar, the internationally famous and undoubtedly idiosyncratic wine from the Lebanon has a few links with South Africa. One has just occurred to me:...
I rather hate to admit it, but my most interesting and delightfully satisfying Cape wine of the last few weeks was a sauvignon blanc. A...
The beginning of another year (here’s wishing you all the best!) and, what’s more, a year that’s the 50th anniversary of a crucial event in...
There was, of course, that brief Covid-inspired ban on South African liquor movement in 2020 that affected exports of Cape wine. And, presumably, troubled markets...
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