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Its not all that many years since South African retailers had trouble selling a bottle of white wine other than chardonnay that was not from...
We were enjoying a remarkably fine white wine, B Vintners Haarlem to Hope 2019 - yes, the one that has hanepoot in the glorious mix...
While much of the South African wine industry was whingeing and weeping on the international and local stages about its problems and opportunistically assigning too...
They are questions I’m faced with on a regular basis in my day job as a fine wine buyer: What sells? What is currently hot?...
It must be some 20 years since I last took that dirt road off the R44 between Somerset West and Stellenbosch, climbing the lower slopes...
Originally published in a Stellenbosch Wine Routes members’ newsletter: A recent phone call from a well-respected sommelier confirmed my fears that harnessing our Covid-19 misfortunes...
It’s been quite a while since I was a proper wine tourist, anonymously exploring a route for the sheer joy of it. Mostly this is...
If being a national player in the world of global wine can be likened to the role of a protagonist in a boxing match, Covid-19...
Most winemakers baulk at being seen as “rock stars”, preferring to portray themselves as humble tillers of the soil, dedicated to using grape to reflect...
On Sunday morning half the sky that I could see was covered by brown smoke, driven by winds from a veld fire on Devil's Peak...
