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Some years ago I had an enjoyable email correspondence with a Californian named Ian Joseph who objected (unfairly, of course!) to a tasting note of...
Has anyone else noticed the rash of silly phrases being given as names to wines? Blankbottle’s “Confessions of a White Glove Chaser” (a cabernet) is...
English is a pretty bastard language – only about a third of its current word-hoard is derived from the original Anglo-Saxon, and much of that...
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...
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