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The 2012 vintage of Mount Sutherland Syrah from high-altitude vineyards near the Karoo village of Sutherland was famously not only best in class but best...
The 2017 vintage of Porseleinberg Syrah as made by Callie Louw off vineyards grown on schist soils south of Riebeeck Kasteel in the Swartland is...
The maiden vintage Chenin Blanc Sur Lie 2017 from Laibach was one of the finds of last year (see here) and the follow-up 2018 doesn’t...
The David & Nadia range sees David and Nadia Sadie working with vineyards across the Swartland in order to best express the district. Tasting notes...
“The idea is not to make the perfect wine but to bottle an honest representation of the soil,” says David Sadie of Swartland label David...
Eben Sadie of Sadie Family Wines relates that as with 2017, the 2018 harvest came in with much lower levels of ripeness and acidity than...
Eben Sadie of Sadie Family Wines insists that 2017 is the first of the drought years to be bottled, his argument that although rainfall was...
A Swartland blend of Chenin Blanc, Grenache Blanc, Marsanne, Semillon, Semillon Gris, Viognier, Clairette Blanche, Roussanne, Verdelho, Colombard and Palomino, and needless to say, the...
Lucinda Heyns, viticultural technology transfer coordinator at Winetech, also makes wines under her own label called Illimis, Latin for “clarity”. Tasting notes and ratings for...
Serenity in recent vintages sees Kevin Grant of Ataraxia combining Pinotage with Cinsault and Pinot Noir so as to create his own take on a...
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