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Christo Le Riche joined the family business in 2010, gradually taking over winemaking responsibilities from his accomplished father, Etienne. “At that point, we were working...
Hearth, a symbol of home, is the name Nadia Newton Johnson has chosen for her own label, launched in 2022. Her small-batch Chardonnay and Pinot...
Both viticulturists, Danie Carinus farms Bluegum Grove in the Polkadraai Hills, while Hugo Carinus (they share a surname but are only distantly related) is responsible...
A wine can look very good in isolation. Put it alongside its counterparts from the rest of the world, and the context changes. In a...
Johan Kruger won the Diners Club Young Winemaker of the Year award in 2005 for his Sterhuis Barrel Selection Chardonnay 2004. That was more than...
Introducing The Cold Soak, a podcast where we take a look at what’s been happening in South African wine – new releases, industry chatter, bold...
One of the abiding lessons from the famous Judgement of Paris tasting hosted 50 years ago by the late Steven Spurrier in Paris is the...
South Africa’s national wine-grape vineyard peaked at just over 102,000 hectares in 2006, following the red-wine planting boom that began after political transformation in the...
The 2024 vintage saw Johann Fourie of Benguela Cove replace Gordon Newton Johnson of Newton Johnson Family Vineyards as contract winemaker for Shannon Vineyards, the...
The Strauss & Co wine auctions began in 2019, in good time to benefit, as is clear in retrospect, from the pandemic that was soon...
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