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The fine wine market has long consoled itself with a comforting explanation for its generational problem: prices are simply too high, and this keeps younger,...
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Jean Smit of Damascene combines technical precision with unusual creative inspiration. Add the now well-documented advantages afforded by the 2025 vintage, and the resulting set...
There’s a good chance that younger readers of this website will not even have heard (vaguely, perhaps?) of Capaia, a fairly large wine estate in...
Sacred Soil 2023 from Stellenbosch property Hartenberg is the first South African wine to carry the Land to Market seal, assuring that the grapes are...
The following received via email from Louis Vigneault-Dubois, a former diplomat and WSET Level 2-certified wine enthusiast: Last week, I read Tim Atkin’s annual South...
Sam Lambson of Minimalist Wines focuses exclusively on Syrah. His first vintage was 2018, while 2025 marked the first vintage made and matured in a...
Entries for the third annual Old Vine Report are now open, with NFB Private Wealth Management, established in 1985, joining as sponsor. Wines must be...
We tasted 92 wines retailing for R120 or less. Twenty-two scored 91 points or higher, qualifying them to carry the Top Drop sticker. From these,...
Burgundy’s dominance at the top end of the fine-wine market is extraordinary. Investment platform WineCap’s 2026 ranking of the 25 most expensive wines contains 24...
Wine has been going through some changes. It has always been going through changes, to be honest. In classic wine-producing regions, we’ve had a long...
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