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
Like our content? Show your support. Contribute
Let’s take the quality of the wines discussed below as unassailable. Is the aesthetic judgement – and in one case, the political one – merely...
The 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli has been credited with first saying that “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and...
If you’re sensible as well as squeamish, you will not have peered too closely into a winetaster’s spittoon. But if you have (huh, Kwispedoor?), you...
In 2007, I passed my Master of Wine studies when my dissertation, the final piece of the elaborate MW jigsaw, titled “Method Cap Classique Production...
Do you already know how easily one can get seduced and led from one’s true purpose by a compilation of statistics? It looks like a...
Gin used to be our house genie in the bottle to lift the spirit, when needed for an occasion. Especially in summer with a good,...
Chenin blanc famously served the mid-latter 20th century Cape wine industry as its workhorse in the KWV’s strategy of striving for quantity rather than quality....
David Clarke of the agency Ex Animo Wine Co. provides a podcast consisting of a series of interviews with industry figures, a recent subject being...
A perennial question for wine producing countries is this: how do you market yourself to the outside world? And is a signature grape variety a...
The single bottle of Grand Constance 1821 that I wrote about last month fetched an astonishing R420,000 at the Cape Fine & Rare Wine Auction....
