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There are strong opinions about the use of cultured yeasts in winemaking. I need to acknowledge here that some years ago I did some paid...
What dish to pair with Patatsfontein Steen 2024? We were tasting this new release with winemaker Reenen Borman at Magica Roma in Pinelands, and chef...
Recently I suffered, you might say, a coincidence involving an article on this website. The bit that happened elsewhere was in a collection of trivial...
Without falling into the rabbit hole of its politics, it is a fact that Afrikaans became an official language, one of two, in the then...
With news hot off the press that one of the UK’s most iconic independent merchants has announced that it will be closing its doors after...
A few weeks ago, wine writer Simon Woolf wrote a stinging critique of wine scores. He contends that scores are subjective, out of context, individual,...
My sherry geekiness of a few weeks back prompted me to think about South African sherry-style wine. Not much else around here is likely to...
The definitive answer to the question in the title is a typical South African “Ja/Nee”, indicating that the answer is not straightforward. A major component...
There’s no doubt that the world we know – and trade with – is in turmoil. At home we have the uncertainties surrounding the GNU/coalition....
Wine reputations are a complicated interaction between perception and reality, where the weight of a brand name, a storied maison, or a prestigious appellation often...
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