Opinion & Analysis

Greg Sherwood MW: The importance of connecting with the terroir

By Greg Sherwood , 19 October 2022

When I started my master of wine studies in 2003, I paid a lot of attention to the small details, the subtleties and the insider...

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Tim James: Older wines, collecting and remembering

By Tim James , 18 October 2022

I wrote recently about the problem (pretty much a first-world one, I confess) of having rather too much expensively stored wine, and then had the...

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Letter to the editor: Saving old vineyards and reducing barriers to entry into the wine industry

By Christian Eedes , 17 October 2022

The following received via email from Anthony Hamilton Russell, proprietor of Hemel-en-Aarde Valley property Hamilton Russell Vineyards:Sometimes a simple idea, new or not, followed by...

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Dan Nicholl: Cape Wine 2022 shows SA wine is on the up

By Dan Nicholl , 17 October 2022

Velvety. Almost impossibly smooth, with a satin sheen of a finish. Fruity, but with an appreciable salinity to the nose. Definitely an older vintage than...

Michael Fridjhon: What options for the wine industry in the face of impending water shortages?

By Michael Fridjhon , 12 October 2022

Given clear evidence of the effects of climate change, it’s only a matter of time before the wine industry finds itself forced to justify its...

Tim James: The new-wave South Coasters step forward

By Tim James , 10 October 2022

The buzz in the room, the quality of the wine, the solidarity of the (mostly) youthful winemakers, and their obvious shared confidence, pleasure and excitement...

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Melvyn Minnaar: Collecting – why?

By Melvyn Minnaar , 5 October 2022

In the rarefied world of art, the concept of “collection” is a loaded one. The word suggests not so much a gathering of bounty as...

Ageing potential – the final frontier for modern-era SA wine

By Christian Eedes , 4 October 2022

It is curious, at least to me, that while South Africa’s best modern-era wines are rightfully praised for their striking intensity and complexity, their age-worthiness...

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Jamie Goode: Will climate chaos kill Burgundy?

By Jamie Goode , 3 October 2022

I prefer the term climate chaos to climate change. Change seems to understate the magnitude of what the planet is facing. Chaos better describes the...

Tim James: Old-vine chenin and an important award for its greatest champion

By Tim James , 3 October 2022

The breadth, depth and quality of the Cape’s serious chenin offering is remarkable. We all know this, I think, perhaps to the point of being...