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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...
Many years back, when I was receiving instruction from the Cape Wine Academy about how to taste wine (and, by the prevailing logic, therefore how...
I confess I’m feeling a touch weary of thinking about lists of South Africa’s best wineries (and not because of the few trolls who slithered...
A compilation like this must inevitably be controversial. But it helped make the 27 panellists think hard (and even with some light anguish, by all...
A poll of 27 selected wine professionals has put Sadie Family Wines way ahead as South Africa’s top winery. The last time a similar poll...
I was too cursory in wrapping up my whizz through the history of Cape winegrape-planting with just a few sentences about the big changes happening...
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