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Just about a month ago, I hopped on a plane to the UK for some rest, relaxation, exploration and also to pop in at the...
These are good times for pinotage. Believe it or not, of the top ten most-planted wine grapes, pinotage is the only black one to have...
Jan van Riebeeck was not a very nice fellow. At best, the letters and journal he wrote detailing his decade as first commander of the...
One of the Cape’s most extraordinary wine-growing areas, and one of the most obscure, is inland from St Helena Bay on the Atlantic coast, many...
This is perhaps a confession of something too close to addiction to be proudly proclaimed – but I daresay many readers of this website might...
Where is South Africa’s Penfolds Grange? Penfolds itself was founded in 1844 and Max Schubert became the Australian company’s first chief winemaker in 1948 at...
Last week, on the rainiest Cape Town day for a long time, Ryan Mostert was pouring his latest wines at a trade tasting in the...
There have already been some irritated comments on Winemag about the results of the Trophy Wine Show, pointing to some of the nonsenses that are...
The first foreign investment in the Cape wine industry was made by the Vereenigde Landsche Ge-Oktroyeerde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) shortly after Jan van Riebeeck established...
Johan and Diana Simons’s Fynbos Estate is in one of the sprawling Paardeberg’s many kloofs – across a few high ridges from more lushly vineyarded...
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