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Louis Nel, Cape Winemakers Guild member since 2006, advises various small wineries while also making wines under his own label. Latest release is the small-batch,...
Vergelegen in Somerset West should arguably be South Africa’s most revered property or at least running Kanonkop close. However, while wine quality remains high, it...
Though the wines of Donkiesbaai have been most accomplished just about since inception in 2011, I’m not sure this side project belonging to Jean Engelbrecht...
A perennial question that gets put to me comes from proud first-time parents: What wine can they buy of their child’s birth-year to serve with...
The Reserve Red 2017 from Leeuwenkuil is uncomplicated yet tasty and isn’t that what you want from a blend with an approximate retail price of...
The Sauvignon Blanc, labelled as Blanc Fumé, from Stellenbosch property Le Bonheur was much celebrated in the 1980s and new owner Advini is keen to...
I realised I should say a little more about “natural wine” than I did in my last piece, in which I was mostly concerned to...
“Skuinsberg” means steep slope and this 1991 site on Kaapzicht has apparently claimed many a tractor. The nose shows candy floss, cherry, plum, earth and...
Guests at corporate events at most of South Africa's best-known establishments have no idea what their hosts pay for the same old drab buffets which...
For those taken with wines from old vines, then the 1947 Chenin Blanc from Stellenbosch property Kaapzicht is particularly beguiling. Grapes come from a vineyard...
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