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Each year, Wine Spectator editors survey the wines reviewed over the previous 12 months and select their Top 100, based on quality, value, availability and...
Two responses to my last week’s piece on the Swartland Revolution made particular sense to me. Though they were essentially antithetical, having to resolve the...
Capaia, situated on a Philadelphia hillside between Durbanville and Darling, has really produced the goods with its Sauvignon Blanc 2015 (price: R70 a bottle). A...
Stellenboschkloof property Overgaauw has long made South Africa’s only Sylvaner but generally it’s a property known for its red wines rather than its whites. In...
Three SA wines feature in the "Too 100 Cellar Selections 2015" of US publication Wine Enthusiast. These are: 62. De Toren Fusion V 2012 -...
Today a lunch to celebrate a decade of “Z” from Stellenbosch property De Toren, this being the Merlot-led Boredeaux-style red first bottled in 2004, counterpart...
The Mentors range from KWV are nothing if not precise, this borne out by it being the most successful producer at Veritas five years running....
“You’re at the centre of one of the most exciting places in the entire wine world, more so than you realise,” was the opening comment...
“Western Sicily's most serious red wine grape, also known as Calabrese. Very fruity though barrel maturation can work well,” is the description of Nero d’Avola...
The 2015 vintage has generally been heralded as “near perfect” but I’m increasingly sceptical of the industry-wide practice of pronouncing on quality before anybody’s actually...
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