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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...
The Elim Wine Festival is lively, noisy and cheerfully crowded, with plenty of good wine (and beer) available - mostly for downing rather than judiciously...
In Stellenbosch you’ll find two men with a mission - a mission to safeguard South Africa’s ’s heritage of old vines. Armed only with secateurs...
South African Cabernet Sauvignon urgently needs some custodianship. Many think of it as a mainstay of the industry with wines like GS 1966 and 1968,...
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