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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,...
It feels like everyone I know is collectively suffering from that special brand of fatigue that sets in around October. End-of-year-itis. My mind keeps conjuring...
Come over the Helshoogte Pass from Stellenbosch, past Thelema, Tokara and Delaire on the crest, and there’s the lovely Banghoek Valley around you as you...
Wine-drinkers who think that regulation around the sale of liquor is unlikely to have any impact on their being able to enjoy their favourite tipple...
In October 2012 I persuaded Roland Peens of Wine Cellar in Cape Town to organise a small tasting of fairly modestly priced red blends. The...
There are various reasons why, in the midst of all the fine local stuff offered us these days, we should look to wine imports. The...
“We are not simply tasting our library stock to see what’s in good enough shape to release commercially. The objective is rather to share these...
I spend a lot of time thinking about discrepancies in the wine industry. Things I observe that seem like gaps - gaps in reasoning, or...
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