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There must be few of us wine lovers who haven’t felt the urge to save a bottle – the actual glass bottle, I mean, emptied...
The first time tasting de-alcoholised wine wasn’t a pleasant experience. Yes there was some fruit there, tropical, with a searing acidity. It was a sauvignon...
Packaging wine is hard. Harder than you’d expect, and harder than anyone realized until they started looking for an alternative to glass bottles sealed with...
A month into 2023 and the Cape’s wine-grape harvest is under way in the warmer areas and with the earlier-ripening varieties. The producer organisation VinPro...
It probably won’t come as a massive surprise to most people that I drank more than a few bottles of South African Cinsault this Christmas....
Elgin has for some time now aimed to tie its regional brand identity to Chardonnay, the first ever Colloquium aimed at celebrating wines of the...
Comments on an article I wrote last October about reclaiming ignored or despised varieties, especially colombard, got sidetracked into discussion of quality claims about the...
When we talk about winespeak we generally mean the arcane language which is intended to describe the flavour of fermented grape juice – or at...
I celebrated the advent of the new year with a bottle of Kanonkop Cabernet Sauvignon 2000. It was always a lesser vintage of this great...
In the Sherwood household, there has been a bit of a rumbling debate at Christmas for the past two decades. You see, my wife Nicky...
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