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“I always cook with wine and sometimes I also put it into the food.” This quote is attributed to WC Fields who could be termed...
You would have to be less than half-literate and perversely uninterested not to note that 2025 is the Centenary Year of Pinotage. Even if pinotage...
Summer is more or less here in Cape Town, with occasional backward glances to winter, and I believe that it’s been resident in Johannesburg, for...
It’s sometimes funny to think that wine producers, regional bodies, and certainly consumers in South Africa so often look to the classical Old-World regions of...
These days I find that there’s little more interesting in the world of wine than bumping around vineyard roads (in this case in a robust...
Is the composition of South Africa’s vineyard plantings, taken in their entirety, truly fit for purpose? At first glance, the numbers are both revealing and...
Recently, I was at a tasting of some very fancy wines from Napa. Someone round the table asked for the alcohol levels. All were 15%...
“We didn’t want another pretty poster by a cartographer,” says well-known viticulturist Jaco Engelbrecht in his characteristically direct manner. “This map links geology to viticulture...
It would not be surprising if any moderately youthful wine lover in South Afrca had never heard of Veenwouden or 4G Wines, and I’d bet...
After Robert Parker Jr’s retirement from The Wine Advocate wine journal, many periphery wine commentators were quick to predict the quickening demise of influential, critical,...
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