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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...
I’m not sure I am the right person to be writing about this subject matter. It is at best a sensitive topic - now more...
I suspect it's a thankless task trying to run VinPro, the wine producers' representative body. For a start, you are dealing with literally thousands of...
Late last year I called in at Boekenhoutskloof. On an earlier visit, the new barrel cellar had been a huge muddy hole in the ground...
Let’s be grateful that the KWV doesn’t celebrate its birthday as assiduously as does the African National Congress. We can also breathe a happy sigh...
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