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The Sauvignon Blanc from Hidden Valley in Stellenbosch (R80 a bottle) exhibits some smart viticulture and winemaking. Grapes were harvested at different levels of ripeness...
The international trophy winners at this year's Decanter World Wine Awards were recently announced. The following South African wines featured: Best Dry Aromatic under £15...
Carla Pauw of Saltare is a bubbly specialist but I’m always impressed whenever I encounter her Chenin Blanc. Yesterday a bottle of her Old Vines...
Towards the end of last year, Hagen Viljoen came across from Zevenwacht to succeed Hilko Hegewisch as winemaker at Solms-Delta on the outskirts of Franschhoek....
The Shannon Vineyards Merlot 2011 made exclusively for Woolworths at R129.95 bottle is a decent drop but it’s a few degrees off Mount Bullet, this...
Results of the inaugural RisCura White Hot Wine Awards are now out. This involved putting together a line-up of 41 Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon blends from 30...
The winners of the 17th annual Absa Top 10 competition are as follows: Anura Reserve2011 Diemersdal 2012 L'Avenir 2011 Lyngrove Platinum 2012 Manley 2011 The...
Last night, Ayama Baboon’s Back Shiraz 2011, winner of a gold medal in the recent Design Awards 2013 run by UK wine and spirits website...
There’s a feeling among some winemakers that you can’t make decent wine from young-vine Grenache and so they choose not to work with it at...
Let’s be honest. Aren’t we all flying blind when it comes to the white varieties from the Rhône as expressed under local conditions? There’s something...
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