Bursting the bubble
What is it about bubbles that prompt so many people to forget that the wine containing them is often either acidic or insipid?
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Judging top 100 is an exercise in futility
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.
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Those weren't the days in Franschhoek
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.
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Raise a glass of the Cape's finest to our top 20 wineries
South Africa's winemaking industry is evolving and only eight producers who were top of the pops in 2001 still cling to eminence.
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Good value is just one aspect of a rising star
Finding good value is not always straightforward.
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Enjoy a fine seat on the fruity lower rungs
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?
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Too much plank and you get plonk
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.
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Incentive to rock 'n riesling
Riesling: If you have never riesled, it is time to start.
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Old faithful settles into a new niche
Cinderella and workhorse were favourite clichés to describe the role of chenin blanc in the local wine industry of olden days.
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Podlashuk's heirs fulfil his promise
Bellingham Johannisberger, that long-surviving triumph of semi-sweet, modestly priced insipidity, is part of a much more elegant family.
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