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A most remarkable tasting was held in Cape Town last Friday evening. Some 15 people paid quite a bit of money to sit down at...
“Diversity is in our nature”: a phrase that if it means anything at all, has more than a whiff of entitlement to it. This was,...
The question of wine closures always hovers. I should have mentioned the absence of screwcaps when I last week wrote about the possibly significant patterning...
How did you become interested in wine? I began working in a restaurant with an owner who was always keen to share his wine knowledge...
I’m not much of a pedant. It’s too exhausting to be pedantic about everything. However, I am painfully pedantic about the misappropriation of words with...
I spent a good chunk of last weekend – or so it seems in retrospect – tasting wines from a handful of the Cape’s newest...
Born in the USA, José Conde moved to South Africa from Tokyo in 1997 because his wife Marie wanted to live closer to her...
Wine journalists obviously – or should – draw a line between gifts and necessary samples. A clear, strong line, but even if you accept that...
Pinotage. The very mention strikes fear (or a dollop of disdain) into the hearts of many. And that’s a massive problem. No other varietal has...
I daresay I’m as much to blame as anyone for encouraging skewed perspectives, but I hope I show, in my more sober moments, that I...
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