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When writing a few weeks back about some of the viticultural statistics recently offered to a grateful world by Sawis (well, I at least am...
Every few years for much of the past two decades, I tried to get a consensus answer to this question by polling a group of...
The question of graciano came up yesterday during the chatty part of our tasting group’s monthly look at foreign wines. Why it did, I can’t...
At the risk of irritating some and boring others, I want to consider an aspect of the continuing debate that has had a little reflorescence...
The Hemel-en-Aarde and Constantia have some some things in common as wine-growing areas. For a start they both have coolish maritime climates, and both are...
The most expensive bottle of chardonnay listed by Cape Town merchants Wine Cellar is, unsurprisingly a burgundy: Henri Boillot Montrachet Grand Cru 2019, at a...
I remember a wine conversation with my brother, many years ago, in which he commented that he couldn’t afford to buy the sort of wine...
On reflection, it is rather odd that Sadie Family Wines, so associated with the renaissance of the Swartland and with its treasure of old chenin...
The first impressive wine to come entirely off the Paardeberg was a white: Sadie Family Palladius 2002 (which later started refermenting in bottle, but still!)...
The winemaker of Lammershoek, Jorrie du Plessis, and I went scrabbling in the storage space beneath the cellar, hoping to find a bottle that I’d...
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