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Elgin is often hailed as Pinot Noir country, yet I’ve long been taken by the Syrah from Brocha, farmed by Rozy Gunn, wife of Andrew,...
In 1996, German engineer Johst Weber, together with family and friends, acquired the expansive but underutilised Springfontein estate on the outskirts of Stanford in the...
Wine criticism long ago became more than tasting notes and scores – it is a lens through which the industry, its makers, and its consumers...
Natascha Jacka, who will turn 32 this December, was just 30 when she won our 2024 Next Generation Awards, a competition celebrating winemaking talent under...
Browsing aimlessly through the past, I paused at a report I’d made (in Grape 22) on a 2004 tasting of organic wines. Whether it was...
I remember sitting in an Oenology lecture at Stellenbosch University, learning about free-run and press fractions. Free-run juice – A-grade – was gold. Press fractions...
Kolja Stürmer and Carlo Suter met while attending the German International School in Cape Town. Stürmer went on to a career in London fund management...
Alexandra McFarlane, who obtained her BSc Agric Viticulture and Oenology from the University of Stellenbosch in 2010, bottled her first wine under her own label...
Autumn is well and truly in the air here in the Northern Hemisphere. Before long, young trick-or-treaters will be thronging the middle-class suburban streets of...
Our next cycle of category tastings has started! Entries for the Cap Classique Report 2025 are now open. Wines will be tasted by a three-person...
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