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SA Wine Legend: Gyles Webb
A chance encounter with a French wine in Kimberley gave South Africa one of its most legendary winemakers. Thelema’s cellarmaster and patriarch, Gyles Webb started out his professional life as an...
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South Africa, like other New World wine-producing countries, enjoys the freedom to plant the variety of choice wherever the wine grower wishes. Although this results in a multi-varietal mix within a...
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Music to make wine by
The temperature dial is turned up, grapes are ripening, cellars are already a tangle of pipes, whirring crushers and clunking presses; winemakers are getting used to late nights and early mornings,...
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Miss MCC: Melissa ‘Genevieve’ Nelsen
MCC, oftewel Méthode Cap Classique. Het klinkt een stuk serieuzer dan Kaapse Vonkelwijn – en dat is het ook. Waar vonkelwyn in Zuid-Afrika een generieke term is voor mousserende wijn, is MCC dat voor...
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Sauvignon & Semillon – Happy campers together!
Zuid-Afrika kan Sauvignon Blanc voortbrengen die de internationale competitie niet hoeft te schuwen. Maar als sémillon een bijdrage levert, kunnen de wijnen nog beter zijn. Sauvignon blanc is al jaren...
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Wine Trailblazers: Pieter Walser
In a tiny town in the Overberg, Baardskeerdersbos, there’s a tiny spider that creeps into your bedroom at night to steal your beard. Or so the legend goes. This spider is fondly known by the town’s...
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CHENIN BLANC AND OLD VINES
#SpectacularSouthAfrica in June celebrates Chenin Blanc, the variety where, while plantings have decreased, quality and image have risen immeasurably since the mid-1990s. Wine magazine’s Chenin Blanc...
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The South African wine industry still has the ability to surprise. Having been reporting and writing about the local wine scene for nearly 30 years there are few places I haven’t been. (Ok, Koekenaap...
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SA Wine Trailblazers: Berene Sauls of Tesselaarsdal Wines
The Hemel-en-Aarde may get all the attention, but its neighbour, just over an Overberg hill, Tesselaarsdal has a far more interesting and further-reaching history. The small town was once a large farm...
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Wine Trailblazers: Ewan Mackenzie aka The Wine Thief
It’s my first restaurant visit in 100 days. A Cape storm lashes at the glass doors of Chef’s Warehouse on Bree. Inside Ewan Mackenzie twists a knife around the wax capsule of his Costa del Swart Viura...
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