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When golfer Ernie Els teamed up with Jean Engelbrecht of Rust en Vrede for the first wine to be produced under his eponymous label, what...
The contribution of Germans to Cape winemaking is extraordinarily large – really, it needs to be properly researched and written up sometime. It started right...
To many winelovers abroad and at home, the Paardeberg is the most famous Cape winelands mountain – even more so, perhaps, than Stellenbosch’s Helderberg or...
So established is the Alheit name in the elite of modern South African wine that it’s jolting to realise that the inaugural vintage of Chris...
Buying wine is an expensive interest; storing it well is not cheap either. I don’t know how many bottles I have – usually somewhere between...
“Everything we do here is a creative act, the opposite of monolithic!” Thus Marc Kent, the man whose vision – even more than his winemaking...
Having spoken about the white wines at the latest of Michael Fridjhon’s annual old wines tasting, I should say something about the reds, as I...
At the “old SA wines” tasting that Michael Fridjhon conducts each year at the Grande Roche in Paarl, on the eve of his Trophy Wine...
Vintage champagne marks the peak of achievement for most champagne houses, typically made only from about four vintages each decade. The basic house brut, while...
Last Thursday evening, winemaker Chris Alheit phoned André Morgenthal of the Old Vine Project and announced: “I want to join!” By midnight, he’d paid his...
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