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Curious how the 100-point scoring system hasn’t come for discussion recently. It used to be such a hot topic, but it seems less and less...
There was, of course, that brief Covid-inspired ban on South African liquor movement in 2020 that affected exports of Cape wine. And, presumably, troubled markets...
Dalkeith Kalmoesfontein Chenin Blanc 2019 won silver in this year’s Label Design Awards – the wine named after a waterhole in the Kalahari. But does...
What next for Nederburg? Those in charge of winemaking are a fairly unsettled team, Niël Groenewald becoming managing director in early 2019 and Samuel Viljoen...
Roodekrantz is a project that sees former Windmeul export manager Marius Burger and son Marius Junior combining with winemaker Danie Morkel to channel old-vine Chenin...
At R150 a bottle, the Chip Off the Old Block Shiraz 2017 from Darling cellar Ormonde over-delivers. Grapes from a single vineyard planted in the...
It seems like just the other day that the United Kingdom was in uproar over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to cancel Christmas at the...
Lucinda Heyns, who has been making wines under own Illimis label since 2015, adopts a low intervention approach to make restrained, sophisticated wines. Tasting notes...
Winemaker Clarise Sciocatti-Langeveldt started making Cap Classique for “own consumption” while still at Eaglevlei (she’s now at Stellenbosch property Hazendal) but subsequently realised that this...
With the general leaps in quality of Cape wine, which types of wine do we actually need to drink foreign examples of? (With “we” and...
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