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Regular readers of this column will know that I am a firm proponent of regular exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle. At the same...
I mulled for over a month on how best to respond to Christian Eedes’s editorial published on 17 March and headed “The Great Divide -...
A good deal of the excitement in South African wine in the last few decades has centred on the efforts of individual winemakers – winegrowers,...
We’re now a couple of weeks into the 2024 Bordeaux En Primeur campaign here in Europe—an annual bellwether for the fine wine world. Traditionally, this...
Back in the 2000s, when old media (i.e. ink on paper) was in its pomp and the fine wine sector of the South African fine...
With the publicity about the latest and almost certainly the very last Swartland Revolution, I was pushed back in my mind to the first, in...
Balance is supposed to be one of the four key elements in assessing the quality of wine. The acronym BLIC is often cited as the...
In a different era, there would have been cheer, perhaps some pleasant collegial backslapping, but certainly a limited-release wine with a special (arty) label. If...
Wine language and communication continue to be a popular topic of wine writers’ reflection. Wine vocabulary is said to be exclusionary and technical, wine places...
Sometimes, reflecting comfortably enough that the past is a foreign country, it’s a jolt to realise how damn foreign it was. Do South Africans maybe...
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