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Cape Wine, the international trade event designed to seduce international buyers of South African wine by showing them the splendours of the Mother City and...
The notion of elegance came up in a bit of correspondence about Christian Eedes’s review of Kanonkop Black Label Pinotage 2020. One of Christian’s points...
In 1957, Egypt re-opened the Suez Canal, the H2N2 pandemic was at its height, and more innocuously the first Frisbees were released for sale. It...
To mark the launch of the 2018 vintage of Private Bin R163 Cabernet Sauvignon from Nederburg, the label’s current red winemaker Zinaschke Steyn presented a...
Honesty matters. As consumers, when we buy something, we want it to be genuine. It matters that what we have purchased is the real thing,...
The fervour of discussion (in our geeky little world, that is) about “natural wine” seems to have abated. No need to debate endlessly about what...
It has been one of my long-standing beliefs that South Africa’s best wines share so many stylistic commonalities with those of Californian, Oregon and Washington...
It seems that the Cape wine revolution is not going to allow any grape variety an easy death or even a quiet, inglorious existence. It’s...
At lunch the other day, I had some notable samples of wine open and our oldest daughter Zoë, who is aged 13 in Grade Seven,...
Time to move on to some actual wines. I wrote some weeks back about the costs – financial and emotional – of having what might,...
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