Everything to do with South African fine wine. Wine magazine was published from October 1993 until September 2011 and now lives on in digital form as winemag.co.za
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Wine criticism long ago became more than tasting notes and scores – it is a lens through which the industry, its makers, and its consumers...
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...
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...
There’s something essentially celebratory about large-format bottles from the outset. It must be because, being unusual and large, they carry a suggestion of excess, and...
“I always cook with wine and sometimes I also put it into the food.” This quote is attributed to WC Fields who could be termed...
You would have to be less than half-literate and perversely uninterested not to note that 2025 is the Centenary Year of Pinotage. Even if pinotage...
Summer is more or less here in Cape Town, with occasional backward glances to winter, and I believe that it’s been resident in Johannesburg, for...
It’s sometimes funny to think that wine producers, regional bodies, and certainly consumers in South Africa so often look to the classical Old-World regions of...
These days I find that there’s little more interesting in the world of wine than bumping around vineyard roads (in this case in a robust...
Is the composition of South Africa’s vineyard plantings, taken in their entirety, truly fit for purpose? At first glance, the numbers are both revealing and...
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