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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In the world of fine wine, the word ‘drunk’ is never used. The somewhat more high-sounding ‘inebriated’ too never passes lips more worthy of a...
Wow, what an incredibly successful event was the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction 2020 completed late in the evening of 2 October with most of the...
The pandemic has its obscure upside for diners-out. While sorely regretting the permanent loss of some restaurants (and hoping more will hold on), there is,...
In my perhaps quixotic quest (read Part One here) to find out whether Napoleon drank wine from the Upper Olifants River area, I stumbled upon...
Which is the hill in question, I wondered, as I stood with Kristopher Tillery looking down over his vineyards. Surely Noble Hill couldn’t refer to...
In early 1996, I decided to up roots from my own slightly economically challenging times in Cape Town working for a small accounting software firm...
As I grow older (should I say: as I grow old?), I find myself often discarding new quarter-read books and turning to my bookshelves, or...
A media release announcing that today is International Grenache Day prompted me to do a little digging into a couple of admittedly unlikely but nonetheless...
We find ourselves in the midst of a concentrated and very intense show judging and results season. Covid-19 made this inevitable, though, to be fair,...
Somewhat irritated by grappling with wax capsules on wine bottles, I recently wrote about how best to cope with them, given their annoyingly varying consistency...
