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Here’s an extraordinary statistic about South African wine for you, though it might not appear so at first. In 2022, local consumption of wine was...
Armed mostly with a sense of duty, I arrived at the tasting put on recently in Cape Town by the South Coasters feeling somewhat jaded...
Writing recently about such matters as winery size and appellation size, I made the hardly original, but I think important, point that the great model...
Size matters, as one says with a knowing wink. Or leer. Sometimes it matters in a surprising way. I only learnt fairly recently that the...
I’ve been having further thoughts about the whole question of wards since my article on the subject last week. Second thoughts, corrective thoughts, in fact...
I don’t like disagreeing with Eben Sadie about wine matters. If ever I’ve ventured to do so (about the iniquity of heavy bottles, for example),...
Too often pinotage is offered (by journalists and critics and the wine-snifferati more generally) as more controversial than it really is. Malu Lambert’s informative report...
There were six wines in the 280 boxed sets of Sadie Family Wines’ Ouwingerdreeks 2009, with labels featuring drawings especially made by William Kentridge. Not...
“An old vineyard is like an old-age home”, says Eben Sadie. “Everyone has to leave the home eventually, but always there are some arriving and...
As in any business, the wine market can be cruel and unforgiving if the reputation of an estate or brand starts to slip for any...
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