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The current ban-time woes of South African wine (and lets not forget beer and cider and spirits) are something it’s important to understand. I say...
Every year, a highlight of my wine-life is a visit to Gabriëlskloof in the Overberg, to talk to the small, close group of people who...
Early this year (remember then – before things unrolled so weirdly?), I wrote suggesting that for South African wine this was to be the decade...
I have it on good authority (the urgings of every supermarket I enter, for instance) that a Festive Season is nigh. A modest suggestion, then,...
There’s something to be said for a touch of cultural cringe on occasions – I’ll come back to that claim. Unsurprisingly, the term came up...
When I wrote last month about Paarl’s unfortunately lacklustre image, there was much rueful agreement that it was a problem. Not least from some producers,...
This was a question I posed at the end of the short article on some trends in South African wine in the about-to-be-published 2021 Platter"...
If there is a South African wine ward with, pro rata, a more, and more varied, international presence than Paarl’s Voor Paardeberg, I don’t know...
Google for “Blackwater” and you get to scroll through an alarming list of stuff about international mercenaries, sewage, and dreadful diseases. Add “wine” to the...
Large, ambitious wineries that operate at both the ultra-premium and more ordinary levels have something of a problem when it comes to image (certainly in...
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