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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...
Some months ago I was lamenting in this column the absence of good, less expensive red Bordeaux wines in South Africa (the actual stuff, not...
I know I’m not alone in thinking that Paarl has a rather lacklustre image as a Wine of Origin region: Paarl thinks so itself. It’s...
The pandemic has its obscure upside for diners-out. While sorely regretting the permanent loss of some restaurants (and hoping more will hold on), there is,...
Which is the hill in question, I wondered, as I stood with Kristopher Tillery looking down over his vineyards. Surely Noble Hill couldn’t refer to...
As I grow older (should I say: as I grow old?), I find myself often discarding new quarter-read books and turning to my bookshelves, or...
Somewhat irritated by grappling with wax capsules on wine bottles, I recently wrote about how best to cope with them, given their annoyingly varying consistency...
There are only 28 wines on this year’s Cape Winemakers Guild (online-only) auction, compared with 45 last year. Given the (ok, arguably) absurdly high prices...
It seems that the proliferation of synthetic wax capsules on wine bottles – especially those of the more new-wave producers – is something of a...
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