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Some quiz questions about South Africa’s most important wine region: How many wards are there in Stellenbosch? What proportion of Stellenbosch is demarcated into wards?...
It’s maybe not surprising that supermarkets offer little in the way of the lesser-known grape varieties. Presumably, the overwhelmingly large proportion of their wine customers...
At a recent lunch with an eminent English winewriter (at Cape Town’s Waterfront, before he set off with the bunch of British visitors whose Cape...
On reflection, I find myself a little shocked at how small a role chardonnay plays in my drinking life – more say than sauvignon blanc,...
Did you know that “papsak” was one of five South African words added to the august Oxford English Dictionary in 2015? Why it took them...
For the vast majority of South Africans, this country meets all their wine-drinking needs. And why not, indeed, when what you’re wanting is a modest...
If you look carefully at the bottom left-hard corner of the photograph to the left (an inset of the original photo gives the context), you...
And so to Woolworths and to cabernet sauvignon in my quest for wine under R100. Wine, that is, that we fussy types would find enjoyably...
Notoriously, there’s a great deal that wine-labels don’t tell us – notably any of the allowed additives in the wine, from Ammonia to Yeast (let’s...
Chenin blanc has been at the core of the Cape wine revolution since 1994. No other grape can offer three crucial aspects of that revolution:...
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