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An interesting question was asked by a knowledgeable commentator in response to some recent notes and scores about older wines by Christian Eedes: “Is it...
If one can have feelings for a grape variety, gamay noir is one of the more serious candidates for your sympathy. Burgundy snobs will know...
At the feedback session after this year’s Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show, the mood among the judges concerning the quality of wines entered was perhaps...
I recently attended a fascinating masterclass featuring 10 or so top Italian Brunello di Montalcino producers each showing both a straight estate Brunello di Montalcino...
It should be evident - from the flurry of articles about wine pricing - that my current soap-box issue is the concept of value (perceived...
It’s not only around Mother’s Day that I try to imagine the lives of women at the Cape during the first few decades of European...
How Stellenbosch Syrah has changed over the past decade! I realised this particularly last night. I’d found a bottle of Quoin Rock Syrah 2008, which...
There’s a wine in Tremayne Smith’s The Blacksmith range called, rather alarmingly, These Old Bones. It’s a truly complex, exciting and lovely wine, the one...
Michael Fridjhon made a rather poignant remark at the end of Sunday afternoon’s old wines tasting which, as usual, prefaced the start of his annual...
Death, Famine, War, and Conquest are not immediately cheerful concepts – and not names that your average drinker would happily find on winelabels. So, having...
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