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I’ve just bought some modest, but hopefully pretty decent, wine for those days or evenings when I’m feeling a bit mean either with myself or...
The library is being packed up. It struck me how large the number of books on wine now leaving this home’s shelves. (I’m moving house.)...
Writing last week about the significance of the launch of the maiden, 2009, vintage of the Sadie Ouwingerdreeks, I was suddenly struck by the thought...
It’s been thirty years since South Africa’s first democratic election, and in that time the wine industry has gone from being the pariah to the...
On Saturday I took what felt like the momentous step of opening my set of six Sadie Ouwingerdreeks wines from the maiden vintage, 2009. The...
With so many wine writer column centimetres currently being dedicated to the rise of premium Chenin Blanc in South Africa, it naturally follows that perhaps...
I recently had a hankering for fish and chips and so it was off to Belgian restaurant Den Anker at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. Now...
I’ve been thinking again of the names of wines and wine places in the Cape. Names are words, and many of them rather beautiful, especially...
A couple of weeks ago the editor posed the question: “Does SA make too much top-end Chenin Blanc?” Counterpoint to this, I’m of the opinion...
It was a steep and sudden learning curve for me about the possibilities of garnacha. Grenache, if you prefer, though really we should call it...
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