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“The report of my death was an exaggeration”, said Mark Twain, when an English journalist enquired, after hearing of the American writer’s serious illness. Words...
One of the things with wine is that trying something new is often an expensive venture – especially if you are eating out. For consumers...
Perhaps I was predisposed to reminiscence after my piece a few weeks ago about resigning from Platter’s. Anyway, when I submitted my column for what...
There was just a slight crescent to the moon on that wonderful December night in 1977 when the world famous pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy sat down...
If you drive around South Africa’s premier wine-growing area in this worryingly extended autumn (and the days this week are so far positively summerish), you’ll...
Always fascinating spending a couple of days wondering around the London Wine Trade Fair in Kensington Olympia. While the 2024 show is undeniably a mere...
To mangle and misquote Tolstoy “successful wine markets are all alike; unsuccessful wine markets are all unsuccessful in their own way.” Humour me while I...
I have been tasting, writing and doing bits of editorial work for Platter’s South African Wine Guide since 2001. At some stage I was given...
The elasticity of our perception of time is an interesting phenomenon, particularly so after the global pandemic of 2020/21. At times, the events of over...
Back long, long ago when I lived in England for some years, I remember being impressed when I was told that, on any given Saturday...
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