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It’s not a grape I pursue – but viognier has rather been pursuing me in recent weeks. And getting caught has given me more pleasure...
I enjoyed (relieved if not surprised) the confirmation in the most recent Kanonkop newsletter: “Amidst all the uncertainties that lie ahead during these challenging times,...
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...
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