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Yesterday a bottle of Mentors Grenache Blanc 2010 from KWV. It was one of my top 12 wines of 2011 and it seems it’s only...
UK restaurant critic A.A. Gill once observed that “(c)ritics may well be like eunuchs in a harem who know how it’s done, having seen it...
If you launch a single-variety Cabernet Sauvignon at R1 375 a bottle as Simonsig did recently in the shape of The Garland 2008, what does...
Food, art and culture are given much prominence at La Motte in Franschhoek so it’s sometimes difficult to know what to think about the wines...
When this platform was still in print, I embarked on a series called ‘Legends’. The aim was to profile the trailblazers and innovators who shaped...
The new wave of wines from Cinsaut and Grenache present some interesting dichotomies – lightness vs heaviness, authenticity vs contrivance and precision vs (wilful) neglect...
The 2014 vintage of Swerwer is a more serious if no less delicious proposition than its 2013 predecessor. Made by Jasper Wickens, who is part...
The red wines from Saronsberg in Tulbagh might be barnstormers but the Viognier is emerging as a very smart wine. 40% of the current-release 2013...
Yesterday a vertical tasting of Full Circle from Saronsberg in Tulbagh, the wine billed as the “most awarded Rhône-style red blend in the country”. This...
It’s a truism that, however significant sun, soil and slope are to wine, what the workers with vine and grapes do with terroir crucially affects...
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