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Introducing The Cold Soak, a podcast where we discuss what’s been happening in South African wine over the past month – new releases, industry chatter,...
Apparently Henry Ford didn’t quite say that “history is bunk” – he blinked, and included “more or less”. He added that he was talking about...
I have recently written a lot about the phenomenon of the Judgement of Wimbledon Blind Grenache Tasting held in London and its enduring growth, success...
Despite working in the wine industry since 2009, my passion for South Africa, not just the wines, but the place, and the people as well,...
“Early vintages often make for good wines, but do they make for great wines?”, Rudiger Gretschel, Vinimark's Production Director, remarked to me shortly after the...
How well do the once-new-wave Swartland wines mature in bottle – both whites (mostly chenin or chenin-based) and reds (mostly syrah or syrah-based)? We’re starting...
Lately, a significant shift has been gathering momentum in medicine. We are coming to understand that the human body is not a sterile environment, but...
The twenty fifth anniversary of the Trophy Wine Show provides an opportunity to marvel at the distance our winemakers have traversed in the blink of...
Once it’s been successfully nabbed, a good quotation should not be allowed to get away too quickly. I had three of them in my last...
Over the years, I’ve taken part in numerous blind comparative tastings, some organised purely for fun, others as part of a commercial exercise. But whatever...
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