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Notoriously, there’s a great deal that wine-labels don’t tell us – notably any of the allowed additives in the wine, from Ammonia to Yeast (let’s...
Chenin blanc has been at the core of the Cape wine revolution since 1994. No other grape can offer three crucial aspects of that revolution:...
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...
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