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After spending yesterday with winemaker Morné Vrey of Delaire Graff Estate in Stellenbosch chatting about how harvest 2012 is shaping up, a beer. Vrey has...
Last night the official opening of the new Franschhoek tasting facility for Leopard’s Leap Vineyards, owned by Hein Koegelenberg and Hanneli-Rupert Koegelenberg of La Motte,...
The accomplished Neil Ellis of Neil Ellis Wines is on record as saying that it takes at least 10 years before a winemaker has any...
The wines of Colmant in Franschhoek have featured prominently in my life recently. After our second daughter Eliza was borne just over two weeks ago,...
I’m generally sceptical of the burgeoning sub-category that is unwooded Chardonnay – most of the stuff is dry white for people who don’t like the...
The 2002 vintage in the greater Stellenbosch area was a viticulturist’s nightmare – rain, mildew and the occasional heatwave. Presuming you didn’t take the pragmatic...
Stellenbosch Hills, founded as Vlottenburg co-operative in 1945, launched a biltong and wine pairing experience at the cellar in 2006 (an idea so good it...
Chris Keet of Cordoba fame has launched the first wine under his own label, namely Keets First Verse 2009, a blend of 32% Cabernet Franc,...
In an article that appeared The Sydney Morning Herald’s website recently, leading Australian wine critic Huan Hooke writes of Rielsing as follows: “the varietal is...
My wife Jane and I were married four years yesterday. With a niggly newborn and a wilful two-year-old, celebrations were always going to be modest...
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