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You’d surely have thought this good enough business, even for the most sharkishly-minded: a bistro owner buys a modest, but well reputed wine from the...
I get the feeling that Jurgen Gouws is pretty much always smiling. Winemaker of his own Swartland label, Intellego, he moves through the world on...
It was only when checking my notes about the maiden release of Capensis Chardonnay (2014 vintage) that I realised its launch party was almost exactly...
According to a recent comment on this site, I “score the lighter red wine styles [in particular Pinot Noir] rather low compared to the...
In September 2017, I first wrote about the “influencer” phenomenon and how it relates to wine marketing (see here). Looking back, I was quite reserved...
In this drought year of 2018, with the wine-grape harvest now well under way in warmer regions and for earlier-ripening varieties, there are some happy...
As we experience in South African wine no less than elsewhere (and perhaps a bit more) there’s a “duopoly” in wine these days: two dominant...
There are, sadly and obviously, a vast number of things which I know I don’t know. But in a few paltry areas I feel pretty...
There’s much to be said in favour of light wines. In fact, for a whole school of hipsters, both winemakers and wine drinkers, it seems...
The most staggering statistic delivered by VinPro managing director Rico Basson at the organisation’s Information Day sponsored by Nedbank last week was that a mere...
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