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Fine, good or merely interesting? How best to describe the wines of Johan “Stompie” Meyer is the question posed by correspondent Tim James elsewhere on...
What is fine wine? And good wine? Without reaching conclusions, I’ve been pondering this since I wrote recently about some (very drinkable) supermarket whites and...
Where does the average South African sommelier sit in the scheme of things internationally? I have just stepped down from the Board of South African...
Boy, did I catch some flak when I suggested that the Grenache Blanc 2015, White Wine of the Year in Platter’s 2018, might have benefited...
Is the South African national vineyard fit for purpose? With Chenin Blanc and Colombard making up approximately 20% of plantings and 40% of crop, the...
Akkura 2018 is the result of a partnership between Raphael Paterniti and Marta Gobbo of wine retailers Openwine and Giuseppe La Gattuta of Sebisa Farm,...
Daschbosch, part of UniWines which is the second biggest primary producer in South Africa with some 3 000ha of vineyard under cultivation, was one of the...
One of the most important measures of great wine is that it should be age-worthy and with this in mind, winemag.co.za is running the third...
What gives Sauvignon Blanc its broad popular appeal can also be its undoing in that those piercing aromatics and flavours combined with crisp, occasionally seering...
The top end of Cape wine – and the upper-middle range - gets increasingly costly (no judgement here – just saying!). The bottom shelf of...
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