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The 2019 vintage of the Chenin Blanc Fermented In Clay 2019 from Cathy Marshall really is rather lovely. Predominantly from Elgin grapes but including a...
After Mike Ratcliffe of Vilafonté posted images from a tasting held last week featuring 13 leading examples of what he termed “South African Bordeaux Blends”...
Quoin Rock in Stellenbosch is today owned by the Ukrainian Gaiduk family with Schalk Opperman, previously of Lammershoek, recently installed as a winemaker. It is...
This was a question I posed at the end of the short article on some trends in South African wine in the about-to-be-published 2021 Platter"...
There’s much for a winery to consider when it comes to deciding on the right moment to release its wines – too soon and the...
The fortified Muscat de Frontignan from Alvi’s Drift outside Worcester is something of category benchmark for me with the 2006 having rated 5 Stars in...
Koen Roose, who has had previous careers as both an engineer and a sommelier, continues his quixotic activities on his Elgin property, his wines never...
The 2017 vintage is much celebrated and with good reason. Mike Ratcliffe of Vilafonté yesterday arranged a blind tasting involving both the Series C and...
It's easy to knock the Platter's South African Wine Guide, almost as easy as it would be to find a corrupt politician at an ANC...
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