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It must be some 20 years since I last took that dirt road off the R44 between Somerset West and Stellenbosch, climbing the lower slopes...
On Sunday morning half the sky that I could see was covered by brown smoke, driven by winds from a veld fire on Devil's Peak...
Lourensford winemaker Hannes Nel doesn’t hesitate in saying that his newly released Kleipot Chardonnay 2018 is clearly superior to the generally well-regarded Chardonnay in the...
I have to confess to some heretical thoughts. They rattle around in my mind and blend into one, which emerges with a yawn: Is South...
It’s been a little more than eight years since the Cape Vintners Classification was launched (to enthusiasm from some commentators but, I admit, skepticism from...
A winemaker was recently lamenting the continuing decline in the size of the South African vineyard for the past decade and more: at the end...
Forgive this diversion from reporting on wine life. I’d had in mind a serious and hopefully controversial piece about the Great Shrinking South African Vineyard,...
The recent Strauss & Co auction of Cape and foreign wines (the theme this time being Rhône varieties) was another success – though more mutedly...
Pretentiously massive wine bottles, designed to proclaim the high quality of their contents, are not the prerogative of the New World. Well, not entirely. The...
Recent months in Cape Town haven’t offered many wine trade tastings (where restaurants, retailers, media, etc get a chance to sample new releases). Recent months?...
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