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At a recent comparative tasting featuring 12 local examples of Bordeaux-style red blends alongside four of France’s finest from the 2015 vintage, I had Rabelais...
Whenever a wise guy pooh-poohs my fierce argument about the parallels between art and wine, I point out how these two human productive endeavours share...
Here are the 23 wines to rate 95+ last month: Raats Eden High Density Single Vineyard Chenin Blanc 2023 – 97 (read original review here)...
Nuschka de Vos, who grew up on a farm, began her career as a vineyard hand under renowned viticulturist Rosa Kruger at L’Ormarins after leaving...
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...
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