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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...
Some quiz questions about South Africa’s most important wine region: How many wards are there in Stellenbosch? What proportion of Stellenbosch is demarcated into wards?...
It’s maybe not surprising that supermarkets offer little in the way of the lesser-known grape varieties. Presumably, the overwhelmingly large proportion of their wine customers...
At a recent lunch with an eminent English winewriter (at Cape Town’s Waterfront, before he set off with the bunch of British visitors whose Cape...
On reflection, I find myself a little shocked at how small a role chardonnay plays in my drinking life – more say than sauvignon blanc,...
Did you know that “papsak” was one of five South African words added to the august Oxford English Dictionary in 2015? Why it took them...
For the vast majority of South Africans, this country meets all their wine-drinking needs. And why not, indeed, when what you’re wanting is a modest...
If you look carefully at the bottom left-hard corner of the photograph to the left (an inset of the original photo gives the context), you...
And so to Woolworths and to cabernet sauvignon in my quest for wine under R100. Wine, that is, that we fussy types would find enjoyably...
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