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One consequence of the Western Cape drought is certain – the size of the Cape vineyard is going to continue shrinking, as it has been...
A few weeks back, viticulturist Jaco Engelbrecht tweeted a picture of a piece of land roughly churned by tractor marks and empty of living plants,...
Unless I’m mistaken, the first modern South African experiments with fermenting and maturing wine in clay pots happened at Hamilton Russell Vineyards in 2005. Anthony...
One can’t have too much of a good thing, they say – so here’s a little more about Lukas van Loggerenberg’s latest wines, to add...
David Clarke, a humorous man, mentioned a chat he’d had with Mick Craven, like him an Australian married to a markedly attractive South African woman...
I love it when different interests mine of come together in some way – collide, merge, glare at each other, or whatever. It happened again...
Following my piece some months ago about accuracy in what labels say about alcohol levels, I had an email from Peter May (the great pinotage...
One can plausibly understand the development of South Africa as a quality wine producer by looking at the wine industry’s progressive movement away from farmers...
We’re inevitably still learning about how the wines of the Cape revolution are maturing (though no doubt we’re also drinking many of them too young)....
If you were drinking Cape wine two centuries ago – whether in Cape Town or London – the chances are slight that it would be...
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