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A week ago, I whacked you with some statistics, showing that the Cape was producing ever-more wine from ever-fewer vines. I subsequently asked for some...
There’s a bit of debate around cinsaut these days, with the proliferation of bottlings alluded to by Christian in his recent article. Can one make...
For statistics junkies it’s that exciting time of year when Sawis issues its annual booklet of selected statistics. Now available on their website (along with...
These are good times for pinotage. Believe it or not, of the top ten most-planted wine grapes, pinotage is the only black one to have...
This is perhaps a confession of something too close to addiction to be proudly proclaimed – but I daresay many readers of this website might...
Last week, on the rainiest Cape Town day for a long time, Ryan Mostert was pouring his latest wines at a trade tasting in the...
There have already been some irritated comments on Winemag about the results of the Trophy Wine Show, pointing to some of the nonsenses that are...
Johan and Diana Simons’s Fynbos Estate is in one of the sprawling Paardeberg’s many kloofs – across a few high ridges from more lushly vineyarded...
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...
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