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“Your yield from apples is six times more per hectare than from wine grapes. If you don’t have a premium wine brand in Elgin, you...
Fashion in wine is a slippery concept. I realised this as I tried to grasp it, or at least some strands of it, prompted by...
Because the year hasn’t been filled with enough insanity, I’d like to up the ante by poking what might turn out to be a little...
It's long been recognised that the South African wine market is not homogenous in character. (This is even more evident in the broader liquor market:...
Having become the owner of a new, bigger home earlier in the year, my bound set of Wine magazines has come out of the garage...
Oh, not another praise poem about chenin blanc, I hear you mutter. And bashfully acknowledge the unoriginality, and admit: oh, yes. Sometimes these things just...
For some people, Platter’s South African Wine Guide is mostly a useful set of addresses and maps. For others (more, I trust) it’s a useful...
Jay McInerney, the keynote speaker at this year’s Celebration of Chardonnay hosted as always by De Wetshof, is a US writer who made his name...
I have previously written about my loathing-turned-loving relationship with rosé wines. And for the past few years I have genuinely loved drinking pink. I prefer...
Jonkershoek Valley is the quietest and most remote-feeling and rural of the Stellenbosch wards. It’s a beautiful, mountainous place, largely left to nature (the Jonkershoek...
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