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Balance is supposed to be one of the four key elements in assessing the quality of wine. The acronym BLIC is often cited as the...
In a different era, there would have been cheer, perhaps some pleasant collegial backslapping, but certainly a limited-release wine with a special (arty) label. If...
Wine language and communication continue to be a popular topic of wine writers’ reflection. Wine vocabulary is said to be exclusionary and technical, wine places...
Sometimes, reflecting comfortably enough that the past is a foreign country, it’s a jolt to realise how damn foreign it was. Do South Africans maybe...
After a moderately sunny, dry and relaxing Easter break across the UK, this week marked the return to normality for most working parents as kids...
By all accounts, this year’s Swartland Revolution was a triumph. The wines were thrilling, the crowd suitably adoring, the hangovers probably manageable (see Michael Fridjhon’s...
Clearly, the expensiveness of something (which can sometimes be different from whether it costs a lot of money or not) is relative and depends on...
Resveratrol was first described in 1939. Chemically it is classified as a polyphenol. Polyphenols are important in the metabolism of plants where resveratrol is one...
There’s no doubt that wine regions define their own personalities – driven by the landscape and the people who are attracted to making wine there....
When I wrote about my emptying brandy stocks a month or so back, there were some significant consequences for me, two of them motivated by...
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