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Looking recently for something to drink in the semi-chaos of a wine fridge (I seem incapabable of updating records, and this cooler needs a thorough...
Céline Haspeslagh and Frederik Herten of Belgium acquired Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley property Sumaridge last year and have renamed it Hasher Family Estate (Haspeslagh comes from...
It doesn’t get more typical of Stellenbosch than the Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 from Delheim. Matured for 14 months in 300-litre barrels of which 45% were...
“Is SA Malbec on the rise?” asked columnist Greg Sherwood MW recently and the 2020 vintage from Stellenbosch property Blaauwklippen suggests that he’s not wrong...
It’s almost as if all that was required was one flick of the magic anti-pandemic wand and all would be back to normal again. Well,...
Grenache gets all the airtime but at the end of 2020, there was slightly more Mourvèdre planted locally – 495ha compared to 477ha at the...
Tasting the Kleine Zalze Project Z Chenin Blanc 2019 next to its Skin Contact counterpart recently raised all sorts of questions about what is fundamentally...
After I recently suggested that there was a market shortage of “light reds”, Stellenbosch Vineyards were compelled to send me a bottle of the Shiraz...
Government-ordained restrictions on liquor sales under Covid regulations brought out predictable (and not unreasonable) mutterings and shouts about anti-liquor tendencies in the governing ANC. But...
Big wineries are often inclined to play it safe but Kleine Zalze in Stellenbosch attempts to extend the limits of what is possible with its...
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