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Is there a more muddled category than South African rosé? I asked myself this question recently while blind tasting through 20 of them. Let’s start...
‘Imitation is the sincerest sign of flattery’ says the first half of a famous quote from Oscar Wilde. If this were true (and the second half...
As has been pointed out often enough, wine means different things to different people. Those of us extremely enthusiastic about and interested in wine tended...
There’s a uniquely mythic element to the place of pontac in Cape wine. No other grape variety has quite its aura amongst those (ok, not...
Having just returned from a week-long trip to Bordeaux, I realised how much I had missed the wines, the people and the region. This was...
Having announced last week that South Africans were drinking more wine, I thought it might be a useful quest to find out what they were,...
Here’s an extraordinary statistic about South African wine for you, though it might not appear so at first. In 2022, local consumption of wine was...
Not very long ago one of the Cape’s more successful craft winemakers was driving between Stellenbosch and Somerset West. As he looked up towards the...
The world of wine doesn't escape the whims of fashion. Like a pendulum, it swings back and forth, dictating the grapes, regions and styles that...
Where are South Africa’s big-brand wines? It’s a perennial question. The UK is South Africa’s biggest export market and yet you won’t find any locally...
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