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More years ago than I like to remember, to celebrate my 21st birthday, I bought half a dozen bottles of a local sparkling wine called...
At the risk of sounding really stupid (”what did this guy think?!”) - it's taken my first trip to the Douro region of Portugal to...
Larger wineries are important to the stability and continuity of a region. Much of the excitement of Swartland wine this century has been generated by...
It’s widely – if not universally – agreed that the Cape’s white wines are on the whole superior to the reds. But I started getting...
Could Robertson soon become known as the Valley of Wine, Roses and Lemons? A wine-producer from the area was telling me recently that Robertson vineyards...
Cauliflower and wine? Not a pairing with intuitive appeal - but they’re closer than you might think, at least at Fairview in Paarl. It probably...
The upward-spiralling international price of the finest wine may have a much deeper effect than merely limiting the ordinary wine lover’s access to them. It’s...
When I was taught the Cape Wine Academy approved method of tasting wine, scoring (out of 20) was inevitably part of the process. The tasting...
For many years now, Michael Fridjhon has been offering a tasting of older Cape wines at the Grande Roche in Paarl on the day before...
It seems to me there are more and more mutters these days to the effect that we’ve been perhaps a little too generous in our...
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