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Each January or thereabouts, various bodies – notably online dictionaries – declare a “Word of the year”, reflecting peaks in look-ups and usage over the...
The bald ibis is a large, glossily blue-black bird with a long, curved beak, found in mountainous regions like the Eastern Free State highlands, on...
Having a rather chaotically organised cellar – not to mention it being dispersed over three places, two of them only seldom examined – is of...
Turn of the year, turn of the decade – January 2020 is a good excuse to look back at what’s happened in the South African...
The “country discount” affecting South African wines was mentioned by Christian Eedes in his review of Château Cheval Blanc 2015 versus - surely not too...
There’s a Burgundian gloss to the aspirations and the packaging of Iona these days – and, particularly with the new single-vineyard wines, it’s perfectly appropriate....
It was the Dutch who were the great establishers of the Cape wine industry, but as far as modern wine settlers go they’re just outnumbered...
The old, classic questions and problems keep on returning – as they must until a new reality renders them redundant (hard to imagine in the...
Sadie Palladius stands alongside such wines as Vergelegen White – and, looking further back, Welgemeend Estate Reserve, for example – as a Cape pioneer. But...
It’s easy to forget just how recently white blends in South Africa gained the eminence – if not exactly popularity – that they now have....
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