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It seems that every time I sit down to pen this column I promise myself that this time, it will be the last time my...
That the South African wine industry is set to experience some contraction as Coronavirus drags on looks inevitable, although how severe this will be remains...
Google for “Blackwater” and you get to scroll through an alarming list of stuff about international mercenaries, sewage, and dreadful diseases. Add “wine” to the...
One of the horrors of my young life as a wine snob was the close-up view of a Grand Prix race winner taking a slug...
Sponsored – the following by Bastian Teichgreeber, Head of Asset Allocation at Prescient Investment Management: As we head into the final straight of the US...
Large, ambitious wineries that operate at both the ultra-premium and more ordinary levels have something of a problem when it comes to image (certainly in...
“Great vintage, great producer” was my comment on Twitter after recently drinking a bottle of Merlot Reserve 2003 from Stellenbosch property Thelema, the wine having...
Some months ago I was lamenting in this column the absence of good, less expensive red Bordeaux wines in South Africa (the actual stuff, not...
OK, its time for some hard truths. Yes, we all like bargains, it's a natural human instinct. Hell, as a wine merchant, I admit that...
I know I’m not alone in thinking that Paarl has a rather lacklustre image as a Wine of Origin region: Paarl thinks so itself. It’s...
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