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Yesterday Hamilton Russell Vineyards hosted a function “celebrating 33 vintages of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay”. Those expecting a formal tasting of some older wines would’ve...
Selling for R275 a bottle, Leeuwenkuil Heritage Syrah 2012 was Wine Cellar director Roland Peens’s top wine of 2014 which is quite an endorsement (read...
The white blend called Saskia that is part of Tokara winemaker Miles Mossop’s own-label range of wines grows ever more intricate. Originally a Chenin Blanc-Viognier...
With Ken Forrester The FMC 2012 selling for R350 a bottle from the tasting room and DeMorgenzon Reserve Chenin Blanc 2013 chasing hard at R197.50...
The blend called Fairhead might be the flagship white from Paarl property Joostenberg but it is the antithesis of a “statement wine” and the 2011...
Windmeul has a reputation for offering great quality relative to price and when I noted in passing that the Reserve Barrel Fermented Chenin Blanc 2013...
I always feel affronted by restaurant reviews that ignore the winelist, let alone provide any detail. Even in, say, the New Yorker, where it’s a...
Diemersfontein in Wellington is where coffee Pinotage originated and while you have to respect the commercial success of this wine, it does mean that the...
DeMorgenzon, the Stellenbosch property owned by high-flying Wendy and Hylton Appelbaum is getting plenty of a critical acclaim at the moment but I worry that...
Klein Constantia under the new regime of MD Hans Astrom and winemaker Matt Day have impressed with their various versions of Sauvignon Blanc to date...
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