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
Reviews and ratings - only R55 per month.Subscribe
Marie Krige, wife of Johan Krige who’s joint owner of Kanonkop Estate, has been up at six a few mornings this week, preparing sweet-potatoes, salads...
When I started writing about the very earliest history of South African wine a couple of months ago, I ruffled a few feathers with my...
A tasting - organised by Angela Lloyd with reportedly enthusiastic cooperation from producers - of 29 local white wines with a significant “skin-contact” component was...
Many years back, when I was receiving instruction from the Cape Wine Academy about how to taste wine (and, by the prevailing logic, therefore how...
I confess I’m feeling a touch weary of thinking about lists of South Africa’s best wineries (and not because of the few trolls who slithered...
A compilation like this must inevitably be controversial. But it helped make the 27 panellists think hard (and even with some light anguish, by all...
A poll of 27 selected wine professionals has put Sadie Family Wines way ahead as South Africa’s top winery. The last time a similar poll...
I've been attending wine auctions for longer than most of the winemakers in South Africa have been alive. I missed the first Nederburg Auction because...
“What’s your favourite wine?” If I’ve been asked this once, I’ve been asked it a thousand times and I’m never sure if they mean what...
In his article on the first grape varieties planted at the Cape, Tim James says: ‘Viticulture was not much of a science in those days;...
Δ
Subscribers receive daily reviews and in-depth reports before release to the public. Cancel any time.
SUBSCRIBE NOW
