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Before anyone bitterly accuses me of being unable to write anything without mentioning cinsaut let me admit that it’s occupied more than its fair share...
Gottfried Mocke (reinventor of Chamonix as a fine wine producer and now winemaker at Boekenhoutskloof) last week presented his Cape Winemakers Guild colleagues and a...
It’s been mentioned on Winemag more than once that the number of Cape cinsauts has grown year on year – most of them on the...
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...
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