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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...
All the cocktails served at the recent once-off lunch hosted by La Colombe were provocative in their own way, but it was the beetroot rendition...
There are basically two types of back-label, leaving out aesthetic considerations (which is after all what most producers do). All of them are required to...
Grouchiness in senescence is not a given, but understandable. Nostalgia is powered up as the body and, yes, the brain ages. Oldies complain about the...
As December implacably advances, for many of us it’s the year-end that preoccupies, but for the grape farmer – and winemakers readying their tanks and...
Over recent years one of the most exciting developments in the South African wine scene has been the emergence of the Old Vine Project, with...
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