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Soon, I hope, I shall soon return to my customary semi-idleness, with time to go to the occasional wine function or, more interestingly, to visit...
A reality check for aficionados of any more or less arcane things can’t be bad – a reminder for those who bandy about jargon that...
An almost inevitable topic came up for discussion among those attending the recent grand match between some old Cape stars and their international equivalents: the...
A most remarkable tasting was held in Cape Town last Friday evening. Some 15 people paid quite a bit of money to sit down at...
The question of wine closures always hovers. I should have mentioned the absence of screwcaps when I last week wrote about the possibly significant patterning...
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...
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