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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....
The biggest insight to arise out of a recent Cape Winemakers Guild technical tasting on Cinsaut presented by Etienne le Riche of Le Riche Wines...
If terroir is everything, then how to understand the district of Darling? Named after the West Coast town of the same name, most wine enthusiasts...
“I couldn’t get a job I really cared about,” says Rikus Neethling. So in 2008, when it was still not very much the norm for...
I don’t think I’ve ever written about the great cork-screwcap debate without dithering somewhat. Probably I could sum up my attitude by saying that if...
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