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- Judging top 100 is an exercise in futility
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The first of this year's wine competitions announced its results last week and there have been the usual responses from the wine-chattering class.
- Those weren't the days in Franschhoek
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The past is a foreign country peopled with incomprehensible beings. Or, in this case, it is different winelands from those we know and perhaps love.
- Reaping the rewards of the vine
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A Boland wine farm's workers are partaking of the harvest -- and not through the dop system.
- Real men eat quiche
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Melville's Service Station serves the kind of good, fresh food you would find in the home of, say, Nigella Lawson or Donna Hay.
- Raise a glass of the Cape's finest to our top 20 wineries
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South Africa's winemaking industry is evolving and only eight producers who were top of the pops in 2001 still cling to eminence.
- Good value is just one aspect of a rising star
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Finding good value is not always straightforward.
- Enjoy a fine seat on the fruity lower rungs
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On the bottom rung of the wine ladder and worrying about it? Drinking Four Cousin and sure there must be more to alcoholic sophistication than this?
- Good food in context
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Chef Daniel Jardim will give you a recipe, add its nutritional value and say when you should eat it.
- Back to the future of healthy eating
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"Primal gastronomy" is a trend that is taking European diners back to the Stone Age.
- Too much plank and you get plonk
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Sometimes ambitious winemakers seem to use a sad bit of illogic, assuming that if a little of something is good, a lot must be better.
