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“The report of my death was an exaggeration”, said Mark Twain, when an English journalist enquired, after hearing of the American writer’s serious illness. Words...
Perhaps I was predisposed to reminiscence after my piece a few weeks ago about resigning from Platter’s. Anyway, when I submitted my column for what...
If you drive around South Africa’s premier wine-growing area in this worryingly extended autumn (and the days this week are so far positively summerish), you’ll...
I have been tasting, writing and doing bits of editorial work for Platter’s South African Wine Guide since 2001. At some stage I was given...
Back long, long ago when I lived in England for some years, I remember being impressed when I was told that, on any given Saturday...
There can’t be many more delightful places to sit and taste wine than on the veranda of the Natte Valleij homestead, overlooking the lovely garden....
It’s irritating to admit this, but there is a whole lot more to Vergelegen than wine. The larger part of what was, other than Constantia,...
A week ago, Restless River took in the last of their cab. Maybe I’m wrong, but I suspect this marked the end of the Western...
I wonder if it counts as name-dropping to mention three such Cape wine luminaries as Chris Alheit, Rosa Kruger and Lukas van Loggerenberg on one...
There was a time when, while waiting for a connection home at Heathrow, Schipol or Malpensa, I would wander acquisitively though the duty-free shops to...
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