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I know I’m not alone in thinking that Paarl has a rather lacklustre image as a Wine of Origin region: Paarl thinks so itself. It’s...
In my last column, I presented the Moutons of Brakfontein as a potential source of wine possibly sent to Napoleon while in exile on St...
It must be some 17 years back that I first met Albert Ahrens. I was still in the early stages of falling in love with...
At the turn of the millennium South Africa boasted a little over 1 000 hectares of shiraz, much of it virused and very little of...
In the world of fine wine, the word ‘drunk’ is never used. The somewhat more high-sounding ‘inebriated’ too never passes lips more worthy of a...
Wow, what an incredibly successful event was the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction 2020 completed late in the evening of 2 October with most of the...
The pandemic has its obscure upside for diners-out. While sorely regretting the permanent loss of some restaurants (and hoping more will hold on), there is,...
In my perhaps quixotic quest (read Part One here) to find out whether Napoleon drank wine from the Upper Olifants River area, I stumbled upon...
Which is the hill in question, I wondered, as I stood with Kristopher Tillery looking down over his vineyards. Surely Noble Hill couldn’t refer to...
In early 1996, I decided to up roots from my own slightly economically challenging times in Cape Town working for a small accounting software firm...
