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This is not at all what I intended to write about. In fact I had almost finished an earnest and highly enthusiastic little piece for...
There are various ways of coping with a demand that exceeds supply. The basic method dictated by our splendid economic regime is, of course, price:...
When Chris and Suzaan Alheit shared their Hemel-en-Aarde cellar with Peter-Allan Finlayson of Crystallum, and more briefly with John Seccombe of Thorne & Daughters, they...
I’m so used to people thinking that tasting wines for Platter’s’s can only be a drunken, hedonistic delight that I was greatly pleased the other...
In my first – and, as it proved, incomplete – survey of the many lawyers involved in Cape wine production, two names I intentionally omitted...
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...
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