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Having enthused recently about one unfashionable white grape, clairette blanche, showing small signs of a Cape comeback at an ambitious level (see here), I’m...
There's no one who seriously disputes that the Cape wine industry has made enormous progress in the past decade. From playing serious catch-up after 1994,...
We came. We listened. But where does that leave us in terms of innovation? That’s the question I have been asking myself after the WineLands...
I’ve been doing some very basic arithmetic (it has to be basic – it’s so long since I was at school without a calculator that...
How prominently is Cinsaut set to feature in the South African wine industry’s future? Yesterday, a panel discussion and tasting of some leading examples jointly...
For all the advances in wine quality the South African wine industry has made in the last 20 years or so, there’s currently a not-so-latent...
I’ve been thinking, rather unfashionably, about port. Rather unseasonably too, perhaps, as we move into spring and most people seem to associate drinking fortified wines...
Let me start by digressing. I was browsing today through R.U. Kenney’s biography - more a hagiography, really - of Abraham Perold, and paused at...
Innovate (verb): Make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas or products. In about two weeks’ time, representatives from all walks of...
John Loubser, MD of Steenberg, relates that the Constantia property pioneered a Bordeaux-style white blend under the Catharina label from 1999 until 2001 but it...
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