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There aren’t many genuinely humorous wine labels that I can think of – some that are jokey, perhaps, in a calculated, advertising-agency or too-cute sort...
“2017 comes with much turmoil”, Eben Sadie announced at his latest trade tasting release. (I wrote here about the 2016 Columella and Palladius simultaneously released.)...
“My new life is in the vineyards”, said Eben Sadie at a recent trade tasting of his new releases – the two signature blends of...
I’m wondering why I find it easier to write about wines that I don’t much like than about those I love. The question is no...
The large majority of South African wine is labelled varietally – that is, the identifying name of a wine is, or at least includes, the...
There would be little point, I think, in my setting forth a series of notes and comments on the latest range of Alheit wines, as...
Three winemakers make wine for their own labels at the Gabriëlskloof cellar in the Overberg: Peter-Allan Finlayson makes the home-farm’s wines as well as his...
The latest edition of World of Fine Wine, just recently released, carries the results of a rare tasting of top-flight chenin blanc from around the...
John Seccombe is a winemaker who tends to pick grapes fairly early for his Thorne & Daughters range. His wines inevitably give an impression of...
A week ago, I whacked you with some statistics, showing that the Cape was producing ever-more wine from ever-fewer vines. I subsequently asked for some...
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