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Have you counted your fungiform papillae recently? You have quite a number of them on your tongue, probably 400-600; rosy, supposedly mushroom-shaped things that each...
As the Cape continues to baton down the hatches for the ongoing stormy winter months, some climate alarmists are instantly pointing to the effects of...
Pity the uninitiated entering the National Cabinet for the first time. Allowing for the normal attrition due to sickness, work travel and vacations, an intimate...
Eben Sadie was at his messianic best at the recent tasting of the Sadie Family Wines new releases, ranting against “the grey-marketing, trading and brokering”...
It’s salutary to be reminded occasionally that as wine-drinkers we are – up to a point, or beyond a point – alone. That is, with...
The personality of Eben Sadie is so dominant and his association with the winery he has built up over the last quarter-century has been so...
The following received via email from Dariusz Galasiński, a linguist and professor at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. He has been writing on experiences...
It has been 22 years now since industry stalwart Rosa Kruger started her long and arduous journey of scouting for South Africa’s old vine vineyards....
Every few years, it seems, there’s another damning report about worker conditions on Cape wine farms. Tellingly, perhaps (though I'm not quite sure what it...
“Precision,” hammers Nico Walters as we bump along the foothills of the Simonsberg. The Quoin Rock/ Knorhoek viticulturist says he was born under this mountain...
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