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South African Airways recently announced the winners of its annual wine awards arising out of its onboard wine selection for 2015. The winners were: White...
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Phil Freese, leading US viticulturist and co-owner along with winemaker wife Zelma Long and Warwick’s Mike Ratcliffe of Paarl property Vilafonté, says his aim has...
The Black Label Pinotage 2013 from Kanonkop in Stellenbosch brooks no dissent. From a 61-year-old vineyard, it spent 20 months in French oak, 100% new....
Can Stellenbosch make great Pinot Noir? What became clear at a workshop held yesteday featuring various incarnations of Pinot from Vriesenhof is that it’s probably...
Yesterday the inaugural Wine Label Design Awards were launched at Jordan Wine in Stellenbosch. The awards are sponsored by self-adhesive label supplier Rotolabel and are...
The Tamboerskloof John Spicer Syrah 2009 is the single-vineyard, ultra-premium offering from Stellenbosch property Klienood. Made by Gunter Schultz, it was matured for 20 months...
I went through a phase not so long ago of being unenamoured with local single-variety Semillon as most examples were too weird but those working...
The drawback of Viognier is that for all its heady aromas, it can tend to be flabby on the palate. The Nurok 2013 from Fairview...
I’ve been dredging the internet to no avail, unable to check my wholly fallible memory that it was Sydney Smith, the nineteenth-century English clergyman, writer...
If you rely on Platter’s and Platter’s alone to inform your wine purchasing decisions and want a verdict on the recently released 2012 vintages of...
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