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Colleague Michael Fridjhon, who is himself Johannesburg-based, has often pointed out that Winemag.co.za faces a challenge due to its physical location in Cape Town, leaving...
How long to put down wine to maximise its potential is a perennial and difficult question, quite apart from personal drinking tastes. It’s a question...
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Around the world, several industries rely on a degree of patronage from wealthy benefactors to thrive. Wine estates, in particular, often rank high on the...
I do realise that this title would itself provide ammunition to the prohibitionist lobby, but I’ll try to mitigate the effect. In the course of...
There are strong opinions about the use of cultured yeasts in winemaking. I need to acknowledge here that some years ago I did some paid...
What dish to pair with Patatsfontein Steen 2024? We were tasting this new release with winemaker Reenen Borman at Magica Roma in Pinelands, and chef...
Recently I suffered, you might say, a coincidence involving an article on this website. The bit that happened elsewhere was in a collection of trivial...
Without falling into the rabbit hole of its politics, it is a fact that Afrikaans became an official language, one of two, in the then...
With news hot off the press that one of the UK’s most iconic independent merchants has announced that it will be closing its doors after...
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