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It’s a night I remember all so vividly. A Monday evening at the One & Only Hotel in the Cape Town Waterfront, the night before...
Alongside Steenberg and Rustenberg, the third South African wine farm claiming a founding date of 1682 is Blaauwklippen, whose position is indicated on a fairly...
I’m plunged in the middle of the Platter wine-tasting season. For a month or so, a lot of varied vinous expressions of alcohol have been...
A while back I reported on the depressingly small volume of “serious” – indeed, basically dry – wines drunk in this country, as opposed to...
The red blend that is Dr Charles Niehaus from KWV is positioned as a kind of “super Roodeberg”, a signature blend made as a tribute...
There was a nice bit of humorous irony, I think, when Vincent Bührer of Saxenburg wrote to me that he’d be “delighted to refresh [my]...
I remember the day well, walking into the majestic Chateau Palmer in Margaux early on a crisp Spring morning in April 2012 to taste their...
One of the most exciting projects on my calendar is the Bordeaux en-primeur campaign. The previous year’s vintage is judged post fermentation and offered for...
As discussed last month, Steenberg claims to be ‘the Cape’s first farm’ with a founding date of 1682, yet this is also the founding date...
A few years back, a wine-world acquaintance started chatting with me about local wine-writing – in not wholly complimentary fashion. He did say that over...
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