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During the judges’ feedback session after formalities had been concluded at this year’s Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show, the remark was made by Philip Constandius,...
For many years now, Michael Fridjhon has been offering a tasting of older Cape wines at the Grande Roche in Paarl on the day before...
It seems to me there are more and more mutters these days to the effect that we’ve been perhaps a little too generous in our...
What makes a wine “nerdy” - and for that matter, are these the same features which communicate authenticity? I recently – somewhat frivolously – wrote...
Not so long ago Bot River was a village which wine lovers passed at high speed on their way from Cape Town to Hermanus and...
To adapt Voltaire: if Jamie Goode didn’t exist, wine nerds would need to invent him. No other wine writer appears to have the scientific background,...
Yes, I know which platform I’m writing for. No, I haven’t had too much wine. Yes, I am serious about this topic. In the last...
It struck me only after I’d left Glenelly last week – my visit began in broken sunshine and ended in a light drizzle – that...
What constitutes “good” wine? It was a question I confronted yet again while officiating at the recent Wine Judging Academy, the annual three-day course convened...
In old Europe it’s the names of places that are usually the prime definers of wines: the vineyard or village, or perhaps the domaine. That’s...
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