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Those brilliant flashes one gets at times when one can’t do much with them – often when dreaming or drunk…. If you’re a writer with...
Its not all that many years since South African retailers had trouble selling a bottle of white wine other than chardonnay that was not from...
While much of the South African wine industry was whingeing and weeping on the international and local stages about its problems and opportunistically assigning too...
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,...
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