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Let’s start with the big picture: global wine consumption is tanking. According to alcoholic beverage research company IWSR, it’s at its lowest level since 1961....
The pricing of serious, characterful Cape wines has shown a pretty relentless upward movement in recent years – though the current international market decline means...
Bone and wine are not often mentioned in one sentence, save for some recipes for delicious slow cooking. But as I sit on the Mediterranean...
Any grape grower will tell you that not all cultivars are equal: when it comes to saleability some guarantee you a higher price, pretty much...
Much of the local industry – and a good bunch of international importers, media and the like – was involved this last week in Cape...
I’ve always loved a blind comparative tasting. It’s the truest yardstick of quality and style: a level playing field that sets a wine in context,...
This year’s edition of the South Africa Special Report by UK MW Tim Atkin was released recently. Make of his scores what you want (as...
There are few estates that I have written about as often in the past few decades than Lammershoek. Often I wrote with hope that the...
As the world’s wine trade converges on CapeWine 2025 this week, there will be plenty of talk of the environment – as one panel on...
The emotionally-charged Afrikaans word “nederlaag” keeps returning to my mind. It is a word that resonates with poetic sadness, nostalgia - much more than being...
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