The latest guide to South African wines might have some flaws, but it sets an international standard.
Shiraz-based blends that are not too complicated but fresh and delicious are my own "house red".
The Wine and Agricultural Industry Ethical Trade Association announced last week that a sticker would be produced for wineries that passed its audit.
What is it about bubbles that prompt so many people to forget that the wine containing them is often either acidic or insipid?
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.
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.
South Africa’s winemaking industry is evolving and only eight producers who were top of the pops in 2001 still cling to eminence.
Finding good value is not always straightforward.
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?
Sometimes ambitious wineÂmakers seem to use a sad bit of illogic, assuming that if a little of something is good, a lot must be better.