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You get quite a lot of wine for your money with the 2024 vintage of Sonsteen Chenin Blanc from Kaapzicht in Stellenbosch. Sourced from a...
With the publicity about the latest and almost certainly the very last Swartland Revolution, I was pushed back in my mind to the first, in...
Jocelyn Hogan Wilson, who released her first wines under her own label in 2014, has steadily earned a reputation for crafting thoughtful, finely tuned wines....
Balance is supposed to be one of the four key elements in assessing the quality of wine. The acronym BLIC is often cited as the...
In a different era, there would have been cheer, perhaps some pleasant collegial backslapping, but certainly a limited-release wine with a special (arty) label. If...
Here are the 16 most highly rated wines of last month: Scions of Sinai Granietsteen Chenin Blanc 2024 – 98 (read original review here) Storm...
Wine language and communication continue to be a popular topic of wine writers’ reflection. Wine vocabulary is said to be exclusionary and technical, wine places...
Brothers JP and Pierre Winshaw, current custodians of the family’s Stellenbosch property, trace their lineage to Dr William Charles Winshaw, founder of Stellenbosch Farmers Winery,...
Sometimes, reflecting comfortably enough that the past is a foreign country, it’s a jolt to realise how damn foreign it was. Do South Africans maybe...
Nico Grobler of La Brune in Elgin describes the 2024 vintage as a “welcome return” to less extreme weather. Where 2023 proved challenging due to...
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