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Part of a wine legitimately taking on icon status is that it should impress most times it is drunk and the Vin de Constance 1991...
A super-geeky afternoon yesterday tasting 2007 through 2012 of Rustenberg Five Soldiers Chardonnay and 2009 through 2012 Eikendal Chardonnay. A fascinating contrast in styles, the...
Was the magnificent Carl Everson Chenin Blanc 2012 from Rawsonville producer Opstal a fluke? Not on your life. The 2013 is, to my mind, even...
Would the Syrah 2010 from Elim producer have been an even better wine for less time in barrel? It spent 20 months in French oak,...
If Jerez de la Frontera can’t get people to drink Sherry nor Porto Port, then why does KWV think it’s time to place more emphasis...
The Red Muscadel 2013 (R55 a bottle) from Rawsonville cellar Badsberg was named best Muscadel in South Africa at the 2014 Muskadel SA Awards earlier...
I was a huge fan of the maiden 2010 and 2011 vintages of the Biodynamic Syrah from Reyneke Wines in Stellenbosch but there’s something decidedly...
The 2013 vintage of Hope Marguerite Chenin Blanc from Beaumont in Bot River is an interesting proposition. It’s firmly into off-dry territory with a residual...
The small cellar on Hemelrand, the Hemel en Aarde Ridge property owned by Hans and Mary Anne Evenhuis, really is an astonishing centre of wine...
Chris Alheit of Alheit Vineyards says of his newly released Cartology 2013 that it is the most “civilised and grown up” vintage he and wife...
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