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After some recent devotion to what one commenter rather nicely called “musing”, I thought it time to turn to facts. Though I’ve always found that...
Wine is not so much about wine as about the drinkers of wine; more: the individual drinker of wine. It’s your tastebuds, your DNA, your...
A style of wine-tasting note not much discussed when the topic comes up (as it must do occasionally, and has done recently a few time...
Have you counted your fungiform papillae recently? You have quite a number of them on your tongue, probably 400-600; rosy, supposedly mushroom-shaped things that each...
It’s salutary to be reminded occasionally that as wine-drinkers we are – up to a point, or beyond a point – alone. That is, with...
The personality of Eben Sadie is so dominant and his association with the winery he has built up over the last quarter-century has been so...
Every few years, it seems, there’s another damning report about worker conditions on Cape wine farms. Tellingly, perhaps (though I'm not quite sure what it...
The 100th consecutive vintage of that great South African icon Alto Rouge is due to be released later this year. Being reminded of that also...
I don’t always agree with Christian Eedes’s wine notes and scores, but welcome them especially when he digresses beyond organoleptic stuff about aromas and flavours...
In my modest way, I do have a response to one of the wine industry’s big problems – a very simple solution that would also...
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