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There’s something to be said for a touch of cultural cringe on occasions – I’ll come back to that claim. Unsurprisingly, the term came up...
The greatest song in celebration of drink is not the famous rousing New Year soprano aria “Champagner hat's verschuldet” from Johann Strauss’ delightful Die Fledermaus....
When I wrote last month about Paarl’s unfortunately lacklustre image, there was much rueful agreement that it was a problem. Not least from some producers,...
I have always said, "Distance gives you perspective". But there are certainly many frosty cold November mornings here in London where the mix of icy...
The following received via email from Jacques Steyn, general manager of Jordan Wines in Stellenbosch: I refer to your article Brand South African in need...
After Mike Ratcliffe of Vilafonté posted images from a tasting held last week featuring 13 leading examples of what he termed “South African Bordeaux Blends”...
This was a question I posed at the end of the short article on some trends in South African wine in the about-to-be-published 2021 Platter"...
It's easy to knock the Platter's South African Wine Guide, almost as easy as it would be to find a corrupt politician at an ANC...
If there is a South African wine ward with, pro rata, a more, and more varied, international presence than Paarl’s Voor Paardeberg, I don’t know...
‘What is history,’ mused Napoleon Bonaparte, ‘but a fable agreed upon?’ My investigation into claims that the exiled emperor drank wine from the Upper Olifants...
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