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From a 1951 vineyard planted on the Badenhorst’s Swartland farm. The 2015 is utterly captivating. The nose is very forthcoming, the first impression being of...
The old dark-skinned grape vines on Wimpie Bouwer’s property in the St Helena ward of the Swartland was originally thought to be Cinsaut but after...
There's no one who seriously disputes that the Cape wine industry has made enormous progress in the past decade. From playing serious catch-up after 1994,...
We came. We listened. But where does that leave us in terms of innovation? That’s the question I have been asking myself after the WineLands...
From a single vineyard planted in the 1956 on the Paardeberg. An extraordinarily complex and exotic nose with a floral top note before white peach,...
I’ve been doing some very basic arithmetic (it has to be basic – it’s so long since I was at school without a calculator that...
Hermanuspietersfontein has historically had number of different examples of Sauvignon Blanc but the range is undergoing consolidation and the wine previously known as Nr 7...
The SSV 2014 from Lomond near Gansbaai is a blend of 80% Sauvignon Blanc, 16% Semillon and 4% Viognier, the latter two components fermented and...
Tremayne Smith, who had a stint at Mullineux & Leeu before moving to Fable Mountain Vineyards, also makes his own wines under The Blacksmith label....
How prominently is Cinsaut set to feature in the South African wine industry’s future? Yesterday, a panel discussion and tasting of some leading examples jointly...
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