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As I stumbled (just a bit) back into the kitchen in search of more—more of what I wasn’t quite sure yet—I suddenly thought: People who...
The debate around wine glasses usually centres on their ability to bring out aroma, flavour and structure, and for the more shallow of us, there’s...
I have become so used to the (self-awarded) luxury of avoiding the nonsense of scoring wines that I find it more problematical each year making...
What does one do at a sleepless 3.13 AM (and whoever it was that pointed out that the numbers on the clock in such circumstances...
I’m plunged in the middle of the Platter wine-tasting season. For a month or so, a lot of varied vinous expressions of alcohol have been...
A while back I reported on the depressingly small volume of “serious” – indeed, basically dry – wines drunk in this country, as opposed to...
There was a nice bit of humorous irony, I think, when Vincent Bührer of Saxenburg wrote to me that he’d be “delighted to refresh [my]...
A few years back, a wine-world acquaintance started chatting with me about local wine-writing – in not wholly complimentary fashion. He did say that over...
As I described last week, the forthcoming Sadie Family Wines releases were picked in the teeth of the drought (see here). Volumes of the Ou...
One must feel a little sorry for Paul Jordaan, winemaker alongside Eben Sadie at Sadie Family Wines. Certainly, Eben feels sympathy for the fact that...
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