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Taking up the theme of lawyers in wine that I introduced last week (see here): I’ve been served lawsuits three times (none got to court)...
I confess to a little knowledge of lawyers at their sharp end – the part that sends out invoices for services rendered. Mostly, I’m proud...
It’s always useful to rehash old debates, if only because the audience is always widening, so I couldn’t resist last week responding to Michael Fridjhon’s...
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...
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