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Two recent tastings reminded me of divergences at the broadly-upper end of Cape wine going beyond the wines themselves into wider cultural effects. As I...
An interesting corollary of the general decline in wine sales worldwide has been the collapse of the wine investment market. This is not something immediately...
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,...
The fine wine market currently resembles a fractured landscape. A lopsided hourglass where the neck is tightening and the sand refuses to flow. On one...
My relationship with the commodities of sin is longstanding, though perhaps less lurid than the phrase suggests. As a Stellenbosch University student in the early...
Wine and food matching has never much interested me beyond the broadest principles. I have vaguely decided, for one example, that for me cheeses tend...
I love smashable red wines. Lighter red wines, pale in colour, low in alcohol with good acidity and no make-up – the sorts of wines...
Earlier in the year, Greg Sherwood MW wrote up a recent tasting of 2020 South African Chenin Blanc that proved “underwhelming”, many wines appearing to...
If I were an impoverished drunk with a sweet tooth (at least a few sweet teeth remaining, I trust), instead of a bourgeois heavy drinker...
The modern world is experiencing a profound erosion of the "expert gatekeeper," a key topic Winemag columnist Michael Fridjhon touched on recently in his insightful...
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