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Koen Roose is sitting inside his Elgin cellar at a wooden bench, stirring a bentonite mixture with an oversize whisk. I ask him what wine...
With more and more of the top wines in South Africa moving to annual releases of "take-it or leave-it" allocations it is very useful to...
The currently available Mullineux 2015 Syrah is surely – and I’m not the only one of this opinion – the best ever of this label....
Plunged into doing a bit of research on how digital marketing is being used in wine, I keep coming across a word that is slowly...
In the context of so much excitement about South African wine – here on Winemag as much as anywhere – it’s sobering, and even surprising...
“We’re 10 years in and only vaguely understanding the vineyards,” says Eben Sadie of Sadie Family Wines as he welcomes guests to the latest vintage...
“Anderkantdieberg” (The Other Side of the Mountain) used to be a pejorative term for the producers of Breedekloof River Valley, wrapped up in the epithet...
At this time of year (my tasting-for-Platter time, with desk, floorspace and life littered with bottles of wine) I often think about bottle closures –...
“South Africa has been the next big thing for a frustratingly long time, without ever reaching its full potential.” This sentence is part of the...
If one chose to characterise it linguistic-culturally (and why not?), the South African wine industry is overwhelmingly an Afrikaans one, with its roots emphatically Dutch....
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