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Recently, I was at a tasting of some very fancy wines from Napa. Someone round the table asked for the alcohol levels. All were 15%...
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Can Cabernet Sauvignon succeed outside Stellenbosch? The Limited Release from Franschhoek property La Bri typically appeals on account of its restraint, the current release 2022...
“We didn’t want another pretty poster by a cartographer,” says well-known viticulturist Jaco Engelbrecht in his characteristically direct manner. “This map links geology to viticulture...
Here are the 25 wines to rate 95+ last month: Damascene Stellenbosch Syrah 2024 – 98 (read original review here) Sadie Family Wines Skurfberg Chenin...
Launched in 1997 by South African businessman Anton Rupert and French banker Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Rupert & Rothschild was conceived with a deliberately tight...
It would not be surprising if any moderately youthful wine lover in South Afrca had never heard of Veenwouden or 4G Wines, and I’d bet...
Intellego Wines is the Swartland-based project of winemaker Jurgen Gouws, originally from the Eastern Cape. After working with leading figures such as Eben Sadie, Tom...
Kruger Family Wines was established in 2015 by Johan and Sofie Kruger. Johan, previously of Stellenbosch’s Sterhuis, sources select vineyard parcels from across the Cape....
After 15 years of experimentation, Terracura is returning to its roots. Founder Michael Roets, who famously bought a concrete egg at the 2010 Swartland Revolution...
After Robert Parker Jr’s retirement from The Wine Advocate wine journal, many periphery wine commentators were quick to predict the quickening demise of influential, critical,...
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