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The Clean Slate Shiraz 2020 comes from a 0.45ha vineyard on Bruce Jack’s Overberg farm The Drift planted on, you guessed it, slate as well...
Chris Williams first launched his own label called The Foudry in 2001, but in 2020, he made wines that were to go under a sister...
The taste of wine is complex neurophysiological phenomenon: Chemical compounds in the wine interact with smell receptors in the nose and taste receptors in the...
Grapes for the 2022 Boekenhoutskloof Semillon (price: R600 a bottle) come from three certified heritage vineyards in Franschhoek, two planted on the riverbed in 1902...
The Cape wine industry looks nothing like the beast which emerged from the era of isolation. Back in the early 1990s we had a few...
Dutchman Sebastiaan Klaassen owns the Banghoek property that lends its name to this two-wine range, with the acclaimed Donovan Rall as winemaker since 2010. Tasting...
In fashion, hemlines rise and fall, supposedly in sync with stock prices. Wine styles evolve, too, though brevity in this instance prevents me from speculating...
Colleague Michael Fridjhon, who is himself Johannesburg-based, has often pointed out that Winemag.co.za faces a challenge due to its physical location in Cape Town, leaving...
How long to put down wine to maximise its potential is a perennial and difficult question, quite apart from personal drinking tastes. It’s a question...
The maiden 2022 vintage of De Keur Grenache 2022 from David and Jeannette Clarke of wine distribution company Ex Animo was smart enough, but the...
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