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As the year stumbles towards the first Cape Wine show since the pandemic, I’m beginning to wonder whether we – and by that, I mean...
2040: it’s been quite a year for South African wine. Diemersdal releases a 2041 sauvignon blanc, early even by their swift standards. Greg Sherwood officially...
We all – winemakers too – seem to blithely agree that great wines are made in the vineyard. So why so much attention to what...
One of the most intriguing stories among European winemaking families to hit the airwaves in the past decade or more has surely got to be...
The decisions of other people – especially those we scarcely know – are always pretty strange, I suppose, by definition. Because they’re made according to...
Anti-KWV sentiment, so easy to roll out in wine-political correctness, is not part of my worked-up emotions. The awkward, yet eye-catching, three capital letters used...
It seems to be an ever-ripe question. Is there some evolution in the way the sometimes beloved, sometime execrated “national grape” (as the Pinotage Association...
One of the critical decisions facing winegrowers is when to pick. But what is optimal ripeness? Assuming that this question can be answered, it still...
Well, no, the winery hasn’t exactly gone hipster – but the word was Eben’s, when I mentioned to him that I’d found 2021 Soldaat, the...
The social media climate memes are certainly doing the rounds of late, but my favourite has to be the split screen picture of a weather...
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