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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?...
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...
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