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I’ve gone public saying that I hate tasting notes. Maybe this is a little hyperbolic. After all, like most wine writers who feature individual wines,...
On reflection, it is rather odd that Sadie Family Wines, so associated with the renaissance of the Swartland and with its treasure of old chenin...
The first impressive wine to come entirely off the Paardeberg was a white: Sadie Family Palladius 2002 (which later started refermenting in bottle, but still!)...
Profitability in the wine industry has always been a hot topic and surely none more so than when it comes to planting new vineyards. The...
The winemaker of Lammershoek, Jorrie du Plessis, and I went scrabbling in the storage space beneath the cellar, hoping to find a bottle that I’d...
The Cape wine industry slavishly follows the Northern Hemisphere’s timetable when it comes to celebrating particular varieties on the dates selected to meet the expectations...
Mundus Novus was the title of a 1503 pamphlet by the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who was thus not only to give his name to America...
The Funeral for the Cork was held in New York City on 2 October, 2002. A sombrely irreverent affair, four pallbearers wearing suits carried a...
The end of April signaled the completion of yet another Bordeaux En-primeur tasting campaign for a greatly reduced number of hardy wine merchants. Drawing to...
It’s only too easy to see the lack of social-dimension change in the South African wine industry in the nearly three decades since the official...
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