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Jonkershoek Valley is the quietest and most remote-feeling and rural of the Stellenbosch wards. It’s a beautiful, mountainous place, largely left to nature (the Jonkershoek...
Come over the Helshoogte Pass from Stellenbosch, past Thelema, Tokara and Delaire on the crest, and there’s the lovely Banghoek Valley around you as you...
In October 2012 I persuaded Roland Peens of Wine Cellar in Cape Town to organise a small tasting of fairly modestly priced red blends. The...
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...
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