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One of the great boons of the Cape wine revolution has been the remarkably increased availability of lighter red wines over the past few decades....
Am I observing the start of a deeply disconcerting trend in the wine industry? Or is it just the problematical time of year when normally...
I realised I should say a little more about “natural wine” than I did in my last piece, in which I was mostly concerned to...
From the origins of winemaking in Georgia to the modern wine revolution in the Western Cape is something over 8 000 kilometres – and as...
Believe me, a profound satisfaction in my growing old (older, oldish – fairly soon I turn 64) is the realisation that I am not actually...
One could do worse than take the grape variety raisin blanc as a bellwether, a trend indicator, of what’s happened to South African wine over...
Google for Donkin Bay and you get surfer’s news: apparently it’s “an exposed reef and point break that has quite consistent surf”. Google for Donkiesbaai...
The first Cape winery to offer a wine made solely from cabernet franc was Landskroon, it seems, with a 1983. The grape had been grown...
The Swartland Heritage Festival, organised by the dynamic Swartland Independent Producers organisation, was held in the seaside village of Paternoster last Friday and Saturday –...
A tasting - organised by Angela Lloyd with reportedly enthusiastic cooperation from producers - of 29 local white wines with a significant “skin-contact” component was...
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