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Many years back, when I was receiving instruction from the Cape Wine Academy about how to taste wine (and, by the prevailing logic, therefore how...
I confess I’m feeling a touch weary of thinking about lists of South Africa’s best wineries (and not because of the few trolls who slithered...
A compilation like this must inevitably be controversial. But it helped make the 27 panellists think hard (and even with some light anguish, by all...
A poll of 27 selected wine professionals has put Sadie Family Wines way ahead as South Africa’s top winery. The last time a similar poll...
I've been attending wine auctions for longer than most of the winemakers in South Africa have been alive. I missed the first Nederburg Auction because...
“What’s your favourite wine?” If I’ve been asked this once, I’ve been asked it a thousand times and I’m never sure if they mean what...
In his article on the first grape varieties planted at the Cape, Tim James says: ‘Viticulture was not much of a science in those days;...
I was too cursory in wrapping up my whizz through the history of Cape winegrape-planting with just a few sentences about the big changes happening...
Anna Trapido remarked in her review of Epicure that “In recent years South African diners have become accustomed to parsimonious restaurant wine lists. Two-page affairs...
In the contemporary confines of Constantia property Buitenverwachting’s tasting room, winemaker Brad Paton places three glasses of white wine in front of me. “Taste these...
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