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In these days of curmudgeonly elderliness I seem to do more re-reading of old favourite books than trying to find new ones. I’ve recently been...
I’m going to miss Abrie Beeslaar at Kanonkop, when in August he pulls back his involvement there to concentrate on his own label. From cellarmaster...
My most enjoyable recent wine experience was not grand – and it was the sort of occasion when the idea of sternly scoring or rating...
Wolves make a modest appearance in Cape wine, though there are inevitably more allusions to the wolf in brands (five, by my count) than there...
The wine world is not generally cheerful at present – and I mean the whole big world, not just the South African corner of it....
Anniversaries, usually focused on that magic divisible of ten when not on single years, are useful things. They remind us, by showing how we were...
When I recently discussed the results of the Top 20 South African Wineries poll, I commented about change over the years, but didn’t highlight how...
It has to be said that, while many observers at home and abroad were greatly upset by the collapse (pretty definitive a half-decade back) of...
We’ve waited five years for another poll of competent wine professionals on what are the leading South African wine producers – the longest gap since...
Browsing through Strauss’s latest online wine auction, titled “Young gun and new wave producers”, I was struck first – once again – by how important...
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