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It’s been a little more than eight years since the Cape Vintners Classification was launched (to enthusiasm from some commentators but, I admit, skepticism from...
One of my last trips to France pre-lockdown was an inspired long weekend excursion in late July to Bordeaux just before the annual French summer...
A winemaker was recently lamenting the continuing decline in the size of the South African vineyard for the past decade and more: at the end...
With Cape Town enjoying clear if windy weather this past long weekend, Cape White Blends became something of an impromptu theme, some of the wines...
Forgive this diversion from reporting on wine life. I’d had in mind a serious and hopefully controversial piece about the Great Shrinking South African Vineyard,...
I was recently asked, “What do I think is the most valuable quality of a fine wine buyer? A great palate? Understanding the global fine...
Rest in peace Steven Spurrier, the wine world legend who died yesterday. I was privileged to judge with him at the Old Mutual Trophy Wine...
That’s not some sort of weird trophy Doug Mylrea is holding in the photo, but he and Paul Hoogwerf, his partner in Maanschijn, are nonetheless...
Is the gravitas of a wine determined by the producer or brand name on the label? And if so, how does it influence appreciation and/or...
The recent Strauss & Co auction of Cape and foreign wines (the theme this time being Rhône varieties) was another success – though more mutedly...
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