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July 29, 2010
The eagle lands elsewhere
A year-and-a-bit ago we were all expecting (after a lot of on-off rumours) the imminent purchase of Cordoba and perhaps Mulderbosch by Charles Banks, a rich American who had recently severed his relationship with the Californian cult producer Screaming Eagle Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 28, 2010
CWG announces auction wines
The Cape Winemaker's Guild has announced the wines that will be on offer at its auction to be held in Stellenbosch on 2 October. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
When enough's enough
Sometimes producers can have too much of a good idea. If a little extra freshness can lift the aromatic profile of a young white wine, it's not necessarily wise to go for a little more. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 27, 2010
Getting warm, getting fortified
For bringing warmth to your wintry blood and fire to your frosty belly, you can't do better than gorgeous, but sadly unfashionable, fortified wine. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
Graham Beck dies
We have just heard with regret of the death of Graham Beck, the businessman who has for many years been a leading and significant owner of South African wine interests Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
Competition addiction
Perhaps wine competitions - and stickers - are addictive. Despite raging controversies, wineries just can’t seem to get enough. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
Competition addition
Perhaps wine competitions - and stickers - are addictive. Despite raging controversies, wineries just can’t seem to get enough. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 24, 2010
Real shiraz
Popularity breeds success, success breeds fashionability; and, as we know, as quickly as something can be in fashion, so it can disappear through the black hole out of fashion. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 22, 2010
Water in wine, wine in plastic?
There have been some fascinating recent changes to the welter of South African legislation governing the making and selling of wine. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
Things pink
Pink is not usually a colour - even when it comes to wine - that occupies much of my mind, so it surprised me that so many wine 'things' pink have been a part of my life recently. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 21, 2010
Shiraz progress
Five years ago, international tasters and wine critics had no time for South African shiraz. Many of them also did not think highly of South African cabernet and positively reviled pinotage. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 20, 2010
Worms and ladybirds
The worms are industriously eating, excreting and mating in Michael Malherbe's wormery at the Laibach estate in Stellenbosch. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 19, 2010
South African wine pioneer dies
The death has been announced of Dr Julius Laszlo. Distell has issued the following notice, paying tribute to his legacy. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 18, 2010
Happy birthday Spatz Sperling
Monday, July 19, is the 80th birthday of Delheim’s colourful patriarch. It should be a public holiday in the winelands. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 15, 2010
Shiraz and the dear departed Widow
There's something about Wine mag's Shiraz Challenge that brings a little tear to my eye as the memory of The Widow comes to mind. It was always one of her favourite disasters. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
Pinot Noir
It used to be a dream floating deep in the southern ocean, today its footprint is increasingly marching across the Cape winelands. Provocative pinot has arrived and is being conquered. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 14, 2010
La Bri and other signs of Franschhoek progress
Not long ago, Franschhoek was something of a vinous backwater, a town too far in terms of winelands tourism. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
SA wine and the World Cup
The World Cup has had real benefits for South African wine, according to WOSA. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 13, 2010
Chenin triumphs at all levels
Even those whose summertime lust for sauvignon blanc is boundless might want something a little less crunchily crisp for white wine drinking in cooler times. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 12, 2010
South Africa’s own Niepoort?
Mark Solms, 'director' of the Solms Delta estate on the eastern banks of the Dwars River more or less equidistant from Franschhoek and Stellenbosch, went to great pains to explain to the retailers and wine writers packing out the estate's Fyndraai restaurant that its latest release is not a port. Read more
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
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