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Botha is a fairly common surname in South Africa, with examples in the wine industry (off the top of my head) including Dawie Botha (Anthonij...
In April 2013 I visited Craig and Anne Wessels’ small Klein Hemel farm in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde (the first journalist to do so, I like...
Stories are good. And even better with wine. It may have become a cliché in contemporary PR talk (often because it’s a flimsy marketing effort),...
Andrea and Chris Mullineux have been greatly significant in the reputation of the Swartland for producing first-class syrah. Chris had been making a Swartland Syrah...
And so the Wine of Origin system marches on … with the Wine and Spirit Board’s Demarcation Committee doing some useful work in terms of...
In my privileged position as a wine buyer, I get to travel a fair amount speaking to both producers and consumers in international markets. While...
Believe it or not, there used to be more Pontac planted in South Africa than Chenin Blanc. The red-fleshed teinturier grape, originally from southwestern France...
To the best of my knowledge, the first Cape wine to proclaim “old vines” on its label was the Old Vines Barrel Reserve 1998, a...
The SA wine auction season is over for the year. Producers and the trade will now have a little time to step back and reflect...
The most annoying thing about discussions of “natural wine” is that you have to spend such a lot of preliminary time establishing what exactly it...
