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In recent years Cape pinot noir has shared in the large price increases common to most top-end wine, perhaps especially reds. It hasn’t reached, though,...
There must be few of us wine lovers who haven’t felt the urge to save a bottle – the actual glass bottle, I mean, emptied...
A month into 2023 and the Cape’s wine-grape harvest is under way in the warmer areas and with the earlier-ripening varieties. The producer organisation VinPro...
Comments on an article I wrote last October about reclaiming ignored or despised varieties, especially colombard, got sidetracked into discussion of quality claims about the...
I celebrated the advent of the new year with a bottle of Kanonkop Cabernet Sauvignon 2000. It was always a lesser vintage of this great...
There are basically two types of back-label, leaving out aesthetic considerations (which is after all what most producers do). All of them are required to...
As December implacably advances, for many of us it’s the year-end that preoccupies, but for the grape farmer – and winemakers readying their tanks and...
One expectation that I’m adjusting in my mind these days, as I try to pay systematic attention to some of the older wines I drink,...
The early editions of the Platter's guide (from 1980) carried substantial notes on imported wines available in South Africa – mostly, but not only, French...
The notion of elegance came up in a bit of correspondence about Christian Eedes’s review of Kanonkop Black Label Pinotage 2020. One of Christian’s points...
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