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Judging and assessing wines is part and parcel of what wine critics, wine journalists, and wine buyers do on a daily basis. But scoring wines,...
The following received via email from Spencer Fondaumiere, outgoing chair of the South African Sommeliers Association in response to Michael Fridjhon’s recent article, “The Rise...
When Indian businessman Analjit “Bas” Singh made a first visit to Cape Town in 2010 (bringing a soccer-mad son to the FIFA World Cup) it’s...
In my last column, I reviewed the scientific evidence with respect to wine and resistance exercise; i.e. the exercise that builds bulk muscle. In this...
You would have to search long and hard to find any use of the word “sommelier” in the context of the Cape wine industry twenty-five...
There are topics and debates in wine discussion that seem to periodically re-emerge. Not a bad thing when they’re important – though many of us...
The ageability of wine is a topic that surfaces regularly among global wine writers and commentators. Perhaps the most contentious aspect is whether a wine...
There’s little doubt that the average standard of the Cape’s reds has improved in the last decade, at all levels – at the grander levels...
The wine world is very sizeist. We wine geeks tend to favour small producers, and to dislike big wine companies (although we seem to make...
A year ago I stood with Christo le Riche outside his Helderberg winery taking in the sight of newly planted cabernet sauvignon, the first for...
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