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Olindo Verdelho 2022 is an own-label wine from Jasper Raats of Longridge, the grapes from a Helderberg vineyard planted on decomposed granite and farming involving...
When it comes to public double-acts in the great South African wine show, unexciting competence is the general rule. Exceptions include Paul Jordaan and Eben...
Grapes for the Groendruif 2023 under the Cape of Good Hope label and part of the Anthonij Rupert Wyne portfolio come from a Semillon planted...
The 2021 vintage was cooler and later than usual, the result being wines of remarkably high quality. Kaapzicht in Bottelary, for instance, has a single-variety...
Let’s get one thing straight. I generally hate dwelling on the negative. Whether it’s politics, economics, globalisation, world conflict or thoroughly boring topics like Covid-19,...
Earlier this week, DeMorgezon announced of Anthony Sanvido as winemaker – he joined the Stellenbosch property in December 2019 working as assistant to first Carl...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first bottling of a wine under the Kaapzicht label, this Bottelary farm in the hands of the...
US critic Robert Parker made his reputation on the 1982 Bordeaux vintage. It had been one of the biggest harvests on record. While the wines...
I’m always irritated by the easy invocation of the “wine ladder”, and the similar concept of “entry-level” wines. Or, I suppose, I’m irritated by what...
Niels Verburg of Luddite in Bot Rver is a larger than life. While waiting for him to taste his new wines over lunch at the...
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