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Late last year I called in at Boekenhoutskloof. On an earlier visit, the new barrel cellar had been a huge muddy hole in the ground...
Let’s be grateful that the KWV doesn’t celebrate its birthday as assiduously as does the African National Congress. We can also breathe a happy sigh...
Last year – 2017 – seemed to me marked by a sudden leap in the prices of upper-end local wines. Or had they been creeping...
Visiting and tasting with Lukas van Loggerenberg (Van Loggerenberg Wines) and Reenen Borman (Boschkloof and Patatsfontein/Ron Burgundy) is becoming established as a great annual pleasure....
The year seems to approach its weary end unusually quickly in Cape Town. Maybe it’s the bloody tourists. They’re already blocking the view of mountain...
I’d attended a Riedel glass tasting before (and heard others’ experiences) and knew that again I’d come away fully convinced of the genius of this...
Few of us in the Western Cape fully realise as yet, I suspect, the impact the drought will have. Little by little I’m discovering more,...
It’s a debate of relevance – probably unresolvable except by time – to countries as well as big brands: Does a reputation for lower quality...
With gritted teeth and a gulp, and eyebrows raised aghast at my own action (you try doing all that at the same time, especially while...
Bruwer Raats made rather a good short speech on Friday evening, as he collected his certificate for Raats Family Wines as the Platter’s Wine Guide...
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