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Some months back on this website, I doubted whether local pinots are world class to the extent that local white blends, sauvignons and syrahs are...
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The 2014 vintage of the Traditional Barrel Fermented Chenin Blanc (R102.50 a bottle) from Stellenbosch farm Villiera placed among the winners of the Standard Bank...
Oh, but it’s not a competition the effete contend. All of life is, I would counter. Eben Sadie of Sadie Family Wines has now achieved...
Kokerboom 2013 is part of Eben Sadie’s acclaimed The Old Vine Series and when I came across a bottle at Wine Concepts on Kloof for...
One of the hardest things about running a wine bar is finding good music to play. A good bar needs music as much as it...
Will Skurfberg and Chenin Blanc become to us what Montrachet and Chardonnay is to Burgundy? Ginny Povall of Botanica Wines is one of those producers...
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer as they must” wrote Thucydides, Athenian historian, philosopher and general, who lived between 460 and...
I’m a big fan of the Shiraz from Constantia property Eagles’ Nest and after the 2007 vintage won the trophy for best Shiraz at the...
Cathy Marston, owner of the Cape Town-based International Wine Education Centre (IWEC) has been named Wine & Spirit Education Trust’s Educator of the Year 2014....
I thought Perdeblokke Sauvignon Blanc 2012 from Klein Constantia was one of the very best of the vintage, a particularly statuesque rendition of the variety....
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