Finding the key to Chardonnay
© Cape Times Friday 21st February 2014 I seem to be going through a bit of a Chardonnay craze at the moment. I began the year with an interesting clonal…
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5th August 2019
Power of The Plank
© Cape Times Friday 30th November 2012 Unwooded chardonnays – good, but are they good enough? This is the question I found myself asking after the marvellous De Wetshof Celebration…
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5th August 2019
Helping to fill the new Platter
© Cape Times Friday 16th November 2012 This year was the first time I’ve tasted for the Platter Wine Guide. This institution in the wine world (and not just the…
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5th August 2019
Summer sips & swills
© Cape Times Friday 2nd November 2012 As if the countdown to Christmas weren’t frantic and fun-packed enough, it is now festival season once more. Not that I mind that…
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5th August 2019
Raising a glass to Cape wines
© Cape Times Friday 5th October 2012 As I write this, I am still recovering from one of the busiest weeks most South African wine folk have ever experienced. Cape…
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5th August 2019
SAA wines to fly by
© Cape Times Friday 21st September 2012 Some people set a high price on their services. You see pop stars with massive ‘riders’ of stuff that must be in their…
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5th August 2019