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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...
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...
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