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“I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory....
The current ban-time woes of South African wine (and lets not forget beer and cider and spirits) are something it’s important to understand. I say...
The 2021 vintage looms while South Africa's third prohibition in less than 10 months shuts off the supply of wines, spirits, beers and liqueurs to...
As we know in general terms, the lockdown prescribed to limit the social effects of the Covid-19 pandemic hit the overall South African wine industry...
No one is likely to dispute the theory and practice of regional specialisation. You'd be surprised to find even the most eccentric grape grower in...
Every year, a highlight of my wine-life is a visit to Gabriëlskloof in the Overberg, to talk to the small, close group of people who...
Despite being the source of many excellent wines, observed my colleague Tim James a few weeks ago, Paarl has a rather lacklustre image. ‘Perhaps the...
Early this year (remember then – before things unrolled so weirdly?), I wrote suggesting that for South African wine this was to be the decade...
There are certain brands that really do transport you back to your childhood. Within a wine context, these brands will be different depending on where...
I have it on good authority (the urgings of every supermarket I enter, for instance) that a Festive Season is nigh. A modest suggestion, then,...
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