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Do extreme loctions make for extremely good wines? I spent Tuesday and Wednesday exploring Elim, the windswept ward in the Cape Agulhas district that boasts...
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A once-off social tasting with friends at the end of last year seems to be turning into a regular wine club, working title “The Bald...
Recently I reviewed the Syrah 2008 from Swartland property Lammershoek on this blog noting that I was “a little underwhelmed” by it on account of...
Guardian Peak Desert Lion 2004 is something of a collector’s item, though I didn’t realize it at the time of drinking. Served at lunch on...
One of my late dad’s stock lines was “Fornication [for an occasion] like this, we need Champagne”. We weren’t celebrating anything in particular yesterday, but...
Last night songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Imogen Heap at the Paul Cluver Estate amphitheatre in Elgin. Heap’s a sort of UK-born Alanis Morissette or PJ Harvey-lite,...
Things about Zinfandel that you always wanted to know but were too afraid to ask: DNA “fingerprinting” has demonstrated that it is the same as...
Many wine geeks claim that Riesling is the greatest white variety in the world and yet it somehow consistently fails to capture the popular imagination....
One of only two examples of Chenin Blanc out of 58 wines to be rated 5 Stars in Platter’s 2011, Botanica 2009 is worth seeking...
Read the article I wrote on the Cape Winemakers Guild that appeared in the February issue of Uk magazine here.
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