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Greyton is a long way from the heart of the Cape winelands. It’s actually a long way from anywhere. But it’s a famously delightful, arty...
There’s nothing that Marc Kent – effectively the MD of Boekenhoutskloof, whatever his actual title, if any – nothing he loves more than a new...
“You’ve got to cultivate your garden,” says winemaker of Babylonstoren, Klaas Stoffberg. The line comes from Voltaire’s novella Candide, and it inspired the name of...
News just in is that Harry Melck has been appointed as the head of the Cape Wine Academy (CWA), this educational body founded in Johannesburg...
I’ve been pondering what’s been happening to the shape of the Cape’s vineyard in the 21st century. Not the rather significant overall annual decline in...
No Badenhorst wine on the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction this year, more’s the pity: a light, fresh cinsaut would have gone some way to redeem...
At a recent and very generous dinner party in Australia a few weeks back, an array of fine Burgundies (which would have put the hospitality...
It was exactly 360 years ago this week, ‘during the waning moon’, that Jan van Riebeeck planted 1,200 vine cuttings on the land he’d been...
New World wine producers used to be lashed by lovers of the Old for being mere winemakers (there’s not even a French translation for that...
Solms-Delta has been in financial trouble for some time now, to the dismay of many wine lovers seeking something unreservedly positive on the social side...
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