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Wine and food matching has never much interested me beyond the broadest principles. I have vaguely decided, for one example, that for me cheeses tend...
I love smashable red wines. Lighter red wines, pale in colour, low in alcohol with good acidity and no make-up – the sorts of wines...
Earlier in the year, Greg Sherwood MW wrote up a recent tasting of 2020 South African Chenin Blanc that proved “underwhelming”, many wines appearing to...
If I were an impoverished drunk with a sweet tooth (at least a few sweet teeth remaining, I trust), instead of a bourgeois heavy drinker...
The modern world is experiencing a profound erosion of the "expert gatekeeper," a key topic Winemag columnist Michael Fridjhon touched on recently in his insightful...
If Shiraz is so good, why doesn’t it feature more prominently in the general wine conversation? Why is it, by many accounts, difficult to sell?...
I admit to something of a disconnect as I sit here writing about a handful of white wines I’ve drunk recently while the window that...
We are one of the world’s top ten wine-producing nations. We have what is arguably the most creative and exciting wine industry on the planet...
A few weeks back, I warmly welcomed Paul Nugent’s 2024 book, Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective, as a...
The Cape wine industry is blessed with a wealth of premium cultivars, white and red, capable of producing genuinely thrilling fine wines. Indeed, with the...
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