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We’re so accustomed to paper labels on bottles these days (perhaps port and madeira are the only mainstream wines where some bottles still have words...
Let me start with a generalised conclusion - one which shouldn’t need underlining but I’m afraid does. That is: if you’re going to spend a...
South African brandy is excellent stuff, but it’s suffering, with steadily declining sales. By 2012, whisky (rising in popularity, like rum at a lower level)...
I started pondering the state of syrah across the Cape regions when I read Christian Eedes’s recent remark that “the Swartland has pretty much taken...
The currently available Mullineux 2015 Syrah is surely – and I’m not the only one of this opinion – the best ever of this label....
In the context of so much excitement about South African wine – here on Winemag as much as anywhere – it’s sobering, and even surprising...
At this time of year (my tasting-for-Platter time, with desk, floorspace and life littered with bottles of wine) I often think about bottle closures –...
If one chose to characterise it linguistic-culturally (and why not?), the South African wine industry is overwhelmingly an Afrikaans one, with its roots emphatically Dutch....
I don’t think I’ve ever written about the great cork-screwcap debate without dithering somewhat. Probably I could sum up my attitude by saying that if...
You couldn’t call Krige Visser a Young Gun – not with that splendid full grey beard (acquired fairly recently - since I last met him,...
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