Platter high-fives to diverse vineyards

Although the 2012 ­Platter's Wine Guide will be released only next month, the winners of its top ratings were announced this week.

Dynamism doesn't end at Swartland

Which are the most exciting wine areas of the Cape? I increasingly hear murmurs of discontent of too much focus on the Swartland and on its wineries.

Keeping sweet with the rich

The wine industry seems to be pandering to a conservative, rich market that likes flashy stuff.

Red, white -- and black

The beautiful Stellenbosch vineyards were once a bastion of apartheid but now a new breed of winemakers is making its unique mark.

Poor yields from grapes of wrath

It's been threatening for a long time: a report from a responsible international body replete with accusations of shocking farmworker conditions.

Golfers scrum down on unfamiliar terrain

Combining sport and winemaking is not new. But does it work?

Fruit of a poisoned vine

How will a damning Human Rights Watch report into the treatment of workers affect the local wine industry? We speak to wine columnist Tim James

Charm obscures need for change

It's perhaps dangerous to visit a wine farm such as Annandale -- it's all too easy to forget the urgent need for change in the SA wine industry.

Slaving away

The ugly side underpinning the wine industry is often too easily ignored.

When innovation beats specialisation

Out of the great revolution in South African wine we’ve seen in the past few decades, something of a contradiction is emerging.

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