Opinion & Analysis

Tim James: Wine, nature and possibility

By Tim James , 7 November 2022

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...

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Greg Sherwood MW: Is South Africa fighting a losing battle trying to conquer the US market?

By Greg Sherwood , 2 November 2022

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...

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Tim James: Hopelessly reviving moribund varieties

By Tim James , 31 October 2022

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...

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Time to have that conversation about wine scores again

By Christian Eedes , 26 October 2022

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,...

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Tim James: A handful of well-matured wines

By Tim James , 24 October 2022

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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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...