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I spent a good chunk of last weekend – or so it seems in retrospect – tasting wines from a handful of the Cape’s newest...
Wine journalists obviously – or should – draw a line between gifts and necessary samples. A clear, strong line, but even if you accept that...
I daresay I’m as much to blame as anyone for encouraging skewed perspectives, but I hope I show, in my more sober moments, that I...
It’s a truism that, however significant sun, soil and slope are to wine, what the workers with vine and grapes do with terroir crucially affects...
I had an interesting discussion at the Neil Ellis winery last Friday, waiting for the start of a tasting (including a new, fine and expensive...
Seems to be wine competition season again – which I’m not involved in, beyond curmudgeonly comment from the sidelines – but also looming is the...
I wouldn’t be overly distressed to know that I’d never again drink wines made from, or heavily dependent on, roussanne and marsanne – those important...
A recent tasting of local 2005s was well covered by its organiser, Angela Lloyd (here), and Christian Eedes (here). So I won’t talk about the...
The Swartland Independent Producers were strutting their stuff in Riebeek-Kasteel last Saturday – and a great show it was. They drifted into Afrikaans and called...
I’ve written elsewhere comparing the dining styles of two great Cape Town eating establishments (perhaps the two best, in fact, in my amateur opinion): Test...
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