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Google for “Blackwater” and you get to scroll through an alarming list of stuff about international mercenaries, sewage, and dreadful diseases. Add “wine” to the...
One of the horrors of my young life as a wine snob was the close-up view of a Grand Prix race winner taking a slug...
Large, ambitious wineries that operate at both the ultra-premium and more ordinary levels have something of a problem when it comes to image (certainly in...
“Great vintage, great producer” was my comment on Twitter after recently drinking a bottle of Merlot Reserve 2003 from Stellenbosch property Thelema, the wine having...
Some months ago I was lamenting in this column the absence of good, less expensive red Bordeaux wines in South Africa (the actual stuff, not...
OK, its time for some hard truths. Yes, we all like bargains, it's a natural human instinct. Hell, as a wine merchant, I admit that...
I know I’m not alone in thinking that Paarl has a rather lacklustre image as a Wine of Origin region: Paarl thinks so itself. It’s...
In my last column, I presented the Moutons of Brakfontein as a potential source of wine possibly sent to Napoleon while in exile on St...
It must be some 17 years back that I first met Albert Ahrens. I was still in the early stages of falling in love with...
At the turn of the millennium South Africa boasted a little over 1 000 hectares of shiraz, much of it virused and very little of...
