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Spring’s arrival has seemed rather more convincing in the Western Cape the last few days, with sunny skies and warm sunshine. The vineyards have known...
Turning my eyes from an array of online wine-business ugliness, I’ve been reading Wine and Place, a “terroir reader” largely composed of extracts furthering this...
Stellenbosch is unquestionably South Africa’s most important wine region: along (probably, these days) with the Swartland it’s the best known internationally, and it’s by far...
Greyton is a long way from the heart of the Cape winelands. It’s actually a long way from anywhere. But it’s a famously delightful, arty...
There’s nothing that Marc Kent – effectively the MD of Boekenhoutskloof, whatever his actual title, if any – nothing he loves more than a new...
I’ve been pondering what’s been happening to the shape of the Cape’s vineyard in the 21st century. Not the rather significant overall annual decline in...
No Badenhorst wine on the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction this year, more’s the pity: a light, fresh cinsaut would have gone some way to redeem...
New World wine producers used to be lashed by lovers of the Old for being mere winemakers (there’s not even a French translation for that...
Pinot noir day? Says who? I don’t know, but it’s somehow agreed by enough people that tomorrow is it: 18 August. So, as with Mother’s...
Business magnates don’t always make the right decisions – or appoint the right people to do so – when it comes to their wine estates....
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