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The Hemel-en-Aarde and Constantia have some some things in common as wine-growing areas. For a start they both have coolish maritime climates, and both are...
Hope Marguerite Chenin Blanc from Bot River is much revered but right now it’s the newly released standard label can’t be beat for sheer bang...
Abrie Beeslaar relates that 2020 was the first vintage where the effects of the well-documented Western Cape drought were no longer as keenly felt, good...
The 2017 vintage of Blanc de Blancs from Cap Classique specialists Graham Beck is particularly classy. Grapes from Robertson Chardonnay, 50% of the juice was...
Chris “Butch” Alheit says that in general his vineyards were around 10 days later in 2021 than they were in the previous year, yields low...
Mark Stephens, until now winemaker at Stanford Hills, sees his future as a regenerative farming consultant but will continues to make a Blanc Fumé under...
It is a constant refrain in South African wine circles that “our prices are too low”. This apparently abiding truth is expected to explain everything...
The most expensive bottle of chardonnay listed by Cape Town merchants Wine Cellar is, unsurprisingly a burgundy: Henri Boillot Montrachet Grand Cru 2019, at a...
It’s the 1966 vintage of GS Cabernet that’s arguably South Africa’s most prized older wine, having wowed international commentators over the years but the 1968...
Beaumont in Bot River apparently bottled South Africa’s first single-variety Mourvèdre in 1999. The variety has a reputation for making rather wild wines but the...
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