Everything to do with South African fine wine. Wine magazine was published from October 1993 until September 2011 and now lives on in digital form as winemag.co.za
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My quest to find out why there is so little Bordeaux wine – at the modest end of the range – brought into South Africa...
For around 50 years Bordeaux had the smartest pricing and marketing model for the sale of high-end consumer goods. Six months after the vintage and...
The wines that one remembers most easily are not always the “best” ones – I’m sure that’s true for everyone and at all times: the...
I was sitting in front of a small colour television, perched on a hard hotel-room bed, my chilled glass of Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc in...
After hearing at the end of March that Distell had put both Alto and Plaisir de Merle on the market, I couldn’t help thinking how...
Consider such fine examples of Syrah as of Boschkloof Epilogue, the Mullineux Single Terroir wines, Porseleinberg and Rall Ava, and it’s difficult to deny that...
David Clarke of the agency Ex Animo Wine Co. provides a podcast consisting of a series of interviews with industry figures, a recent subject being...
Drinking is about so much more than the quenching of thirst and the pleasing of palates. All over the world, since time immemorial, what, where,...
Earlier this week I saw Chris Mullineux, undoubtedly one of Cape wine’s grandees (despite his hard work and his pleasing modesty of mien), acting as...
In the chapter ‘Wine Grapes of the Cape’ of the wonderfully readable 300 Years of Cape Wine, first published after his death in 1952, C....
