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Google for Donkin Bay and you get surfer’s news: apparently it’s “an exposed reef and point break that has quite consistent surf”. Google for Donkiesbaai...
As soon as I arrive at Creation Wines, my phone loses signal—it feels like an instruction from the cosmos to focus on the unbeatable beauty...
Over the past few months, I have shown that wine was produced at the Cape from 1659 onwards. To start with there wasn’t much of...
The first Cape winery to offer a wine made solely from cabernet franc was Landskroon, it seems, with a 1983. The grape had been grown...
If you’ve never encountered the term “bonificateur” you’re not alone. Until last year I hadn’t, and I’d reckon the same goes for most. Loosely translated...
The dust has pretty much settled on the results of the biannual poll of wine industry professionals to determine the top 20 South African wineries,...
The Swartland Heritage Festival, organised by the dynamic Swartland Independent Producers organisation, was held in the seaside village of Paternoster last Friday and Saturday –...
Marie Krige, wife of Johan Krige who’s joint owner of Kanonkop Estate, has been up at six a few mornings this week, preparing sweet-potatoes, salads...
When I started writing about the very earliest history of South African wine a couple of months ago, I ruffled a few feathers with my...
A tasting - organised by Angela Lloyd with reportedly enthusiastic cooperation from producers - of 29 local white wines with a significant “skin-contact” component was...
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