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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...
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...
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