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There are various reasons why, in the midst of all the fine local stuff offered us these days, we should look to wine imports. The...
Twice recently I was prompted to consider food and wine pairing. I must admit to some scepticism on the subject – at least compared to...
Having enthused recently about one unfashionable white grape, clairette blanche, showing small signs of a Cape comeback at an ambitious level (see here), I’m...
I’ve been doing some very basic arithmetic (it has to be basic – it’s so long since I was at school without a calculator that...
I’ve been thinking, rather unfashionably, about port. Rather unseasonably too, perhaps, as we move into spring and most people seem to associate drinking fortified wines...
Let me start by digressing. I was browsing today through R.U. Kenney’s biography - more a hagiography, really - of Abraham Perold, and paused at...
It was the most unusual line-up I’ve experienced at one of the big final Platter’s tastings. (For those who don’t know, this event has in...
It was only in the 1990s that Portugal’s Douro region started to produce red table wines in a big way, using the varieties that had...
It’s six years since Grant Dodd (Australian MD of Haskell) and Christian Eedes organised a tasting of Australian and South African chardonnays (see here and...
This is not at all what I intended to write about. In fact I had almost finished an earnest and highly enthusiastic little piece for...
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