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On Saturday, Christa von la Chevallerie’s Nuwedam Chenin Blanc 2017 became the first wine to be launched bearing the Certified Heritage Vineyards seal of the...
I’m a touch worried about getting excessively lyrical around Reyneke wines. It’s not any lack of objectivity, but it might perhaps seem a bit uncool...
You’d surely have thought this good enough business, even for the most sharkishly-minded: a bistro owner buys a modest, but well reputed wine from the...
It was only when checking my notes about the maiden release of Capensis Chardonnay (2014 vintage) that I realised its launch party was almost exactly...
In this drought year of 2018, with the wine-grape harvest now well under way in warmer regions and for earlier-ripening varieties, there are some happy...
As we experience in South African wine no less than elsewhere (and perhaps a bit more) there’s a “duopoly” in wine these days: two dominant...
There are, sadly and obviously, a vast number of things which I know I don’t know. But in a few paltry areas I feel pretty...
There’s much to be said in favour of light wines. In fact, for a whole school of hipsters, both winemakers and wine drinkers, it seems...
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...
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