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Is South Africa’s national vineyard too diverse or not diverse enough? On the one hand, the top 10 most planted varieties (Chenin Blanc, Colombar, Cabernet...
‘Napoleon really didn’t enjoy himself on St Helena but [the Constantia wine] helped a bit,’ said Lisa Honan, Her Excellency the Governor of Saint Helena,...
On reflection, I find myself a little shocked at how small a role chardonnay plays in my drinking life – more say than sauvignon blanc,...
Did you know that “papsak” was one of five South African words added to the august Oxford English Dictionary in 2015? Why it took them...
It started as a half-frivolous question posed by foreign investors already involved with the Cape wine industry: How well do SA wines stack up against...
For the vast majority of South Africans, this country meets all their wine-drinking needs. And why not, indeed, when what you’re wanting is a modest...
If you look carefully at the bottom left-hard corner of the photograph to the left (an inset of the original photo gives the context), you...
I’ve previously written about the role of slaves in the SA wine industry, and not only from the point of view of anonymous, thankless, back-breaking...
And so to Woolworths and to cabernet sauvignon in my quest for wine under R100. Wine, that is, that we fussy types would find enjoyably...
Notoriously, there’s a great deal that wine-labels don’t tell us – notably any of the allowed additives in the wine, from Ammonia to Yeast (let’s...
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