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It’s a long drive from Cape Town to get to Basie van Lill’s Skurfberg farm, Arbeidseind – but not a tedious one when Eben Sadie...
There is an issue that’s been causing me high blood pressure and a battered liver from all the therapeutic wine I’ve been caused to drink....
Christian’s report on the SA Sommelier Association’s tasting of old Cape whites got me pondering, and being pushed into questioning prejudices is always a good...
“Why are top-end red wines so much more expensive than white wines when they essentially cost the same to produce?” was the question posed by...
The longest row of vines at Shannon Vineyards is just over 100 metres. I’m a bit embarrassed to say that the detail I remember best...
One of the most important reasons I love wine is that, like popular music, it defies consolidation as an industry. If buying toothpaste comes down...
Statistics can be most revealing, of course – but can need interrogating or supplementing if they are to lead one towards a correct understanding. Sometimes...
In the latest post on Grape.co.za, Tim James accuses two important critics, namely Michael Fridjhon and James Molesworth of "misunderstanding Cape wine." Fridjhon gets taken...
Koen Roose led me to a hilltop on his Spioenkop estate in Elgin. All around the vines were thrusting forth little fistfuls of bright green...
If you put a bunch of South African wine geeks in a room and leave them to talk about what's on their collective mind, sometime...
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