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The wine trade is such an intricate, nuanced business that is so multifaceted and fractured with so many products created to appeal to one market...
Does our new programme of Best Value Tastings (see here) aimed at identifying the best wines selling for between R60 and R100 a bottle reinforce...
In one of those nice coincidences, the evening before the winners of the Cabernet Franc Challenge were posted I had been drinking an older vintage...
Has anyone reading this, cracked a bottle of 2019 yet? I haven’t, though it’s perfectly possible, even if I don’t know exactly when the first...
Originally published in Business Day: In 1999, after 81 years under the KWV state cooperative as the proxy for SA Wine, producers at last experienced...
The impassioned pleas of the wine industry for an increase in the price of grapes or bulk wine have been based on the commercial reality...
The intricate game of pairing food and wine has never much appealed to me, let alone convinced me of its necessity. I have, however, appreciated...
Before his departure from the Cape on 23 April 1708, dismissed governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel oversaw the grape harvest at his showcase estate...
The phenomenon of “ratings bunching” – a range of wines which vary widely in terms of style and price receiving the same score – has...
Having worked in the London fine wine trade for almost 20 years, it is truly astonishing to see how the attitudes towards South African wines...
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