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The most obvious link between wine and art is not an aesthetic one, sadly, but a shared tangle of love, sensual enjoyment and money. In...
You realise how youthful, in some ways, the South African wine industry is when Meerendal can claim to be “one of only a handful of...
I visited Bluegum Grove a few weeks back. It sounds like the name of Australian sunshine-in-a-bottle designed for a British supermarket but in fact, it’s...
I had thought that I wouldn’t write about last week’s Cape Town tasting of the new releases of Van Loggerenberg and Craven as I knew...
One of those wine days that come as a rare treat and privilege... Firstly a chance to learn something about the Portuguese coastal region of...
Having looked at sub-R100 wines over the last few months, fairly randomly selected from supermarket shelves, I am considering the wine I drink in a...
As an older white myself, I know that the ageing process is not easy or gracious in all respects. It’s not always an entirely pleasant...
Summer made a tentative return to the Western Cape last week (though as I write it is dull and cloudy again, albeit warm enough), sufficiently...
A matter of wider interest emerged from my piece about the worrying state of the Stellenbosch Wine of Origin structure, prompted by a Dutch sommelier’s...
I had intended this week to have a look at sub-R100 foreign white wines. But the weather in Cape Town has turned so autumnal, even...
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