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And so the Wine of Origin system marches on … with the Wine and Spirit Board’s Demarcation Committee doing some useful work in terms of...
To the best of my knowledge, the first Cape wine to proclaim “old vines” on its label was the Old Vines Barrel Reserve 1998, a...
The most annoying thing about discussions of “natural wine” is that you have to spend such a lot of preliminary time establishing what exactly it...
I was reminded yesterday that the price paid for seeming natural and casual is often a great deal of painstaking work, work done with total...
Spending three months or so tasting wines and brandies for Platter is always interesting and a privilege, and frequently a pleasure. But it does mean...
I sometimes peevishly wonder if the whole “Family Wines” and “Family Vineyards” thing is not getting a bit excessive. Two decades back the word “Family”...
Billy Hughes – an engineer born in Argentina, settled in South Africa in 1990 – made a cleverer choice than he realised when he and...
I’ve rather lost patience with (and anyway can’t regularly afford) tasting-menu fine dining – the sort that involves peering into the depths of a large...
June saw Avondale release the first Cape wines made in qvevri – those onion-shaped, Georgian clay pots buried up to their necks in earth. In...
It’s easy sitting in Cape Town and hearing reports of the city’s reservoirs filling nicely and imagining that the drought is over. In many parts,...
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