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The Cape wine industry slavishly follows the Northern Hemisphere’s timetable when it comes to celebrating particular varieties on the dates selected to meet the expectations...
Mundus Novus was the title of a 1503 pamphlet by the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who was thus not only to give his name to America...
The Funeral for the Cork was held in New York City on 2 October, 2002. A sombrely irreverent affair, four pallbearers wearing suits carried a...
The end of April signaled the completion of yet another Bordeaux En-primeur tasting campaign for a greatly reduced number of hardy wine merchants. Drawing to...
It’s only too easy to see the lack of social-dimension change in the South African wine industry in the nearly three decades since the official...
One of the problems with the term "terroir" is that it means different things to different people. It makes it really difficult to discuss. And...
What does Constantia wine do next? It’s always been closely affiliated with the Sauvignon Blanc, not to say that Darling, Durbanville, Elim and Elgin haven’t...
The wines of Jerez – Sherry – are most associated with flor, the yeast which, under certain conditions, grows to more or less thickly coat...
I wouldn’t quite call it an admission of guilt or anything as sensational as that, but if pressed, I would openly admit that I simply...
Just over two years ago the country closed down in preparation for the Covid pandemic. This is not the place to debate whether the situation...
