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It’s always both gratifying and frustrating to point to the great value to be found in South African wines at all price levels. Gratifying because,...
The winemaking “avant garde” (for want of a better word) in South Africa is one of the strongest in the world, and there’s no doubt...
The Hermanus FynArts festival – held each winter in that once sleepy little coastal resort best known to winelovers as being close to the Hemel...
In a fit of virtue last week I was tidying up kitchen cupboards when I made the happy discovery of a rather battered cardboard box...
Twenty years ago, as the millennium approached, and the Cape wine revolution gathered momentum, the Lammershoek farm on the Paardeberg was still delivering its grapes...
Why does South Africa have so few wineries? And does it matter? To answer the second question briefly: I think it matters a lot: it...
South Africa has been growing winegrapes for over 350 years without yet coming, as it were, to an firm conclusion, for there has been a...
A hi-fi geek friend told me that the first thing anyone eager to improve their sound equipment should do is upgrade all the cabling, especially...
Having last week mentioned the great chardonnay scandal of the 1980s (see here), it occurred to me that some people might like to know a...
There are remarkably few old chardonnay vines in the Cape. On her old-vine website, viticulturist Rosa Kruger lists just one block over 35 years old:...
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