Foreigners still arrive to share in the Cape winelands — not in a deluge but in a reassuringly constant trickle.
Given the remarkable advances in South African wine in the past 15 years, it’s easy to assume that before then all was dross.
The prestige of wine competitions is somewhat tarnished by the subjectivity — and fallibility — of the judges.
There’s often room to sneer when so-called "wine experts" presume to give advice.
Artist Cecil Skotnes, who died a little more than two years ago, had what Michael Fridjhon called an "extraordinary appetite for enjoyment".
Artist Cecil Skotnes had an ‘extra-ordinary appetite for enjoyment’. Vital to this was his profound love of wine.
<b>Tim James</b> ventures that all South African wine producers aspire to the condition of Kanonkop.
Wineries create a space that stimulates the senses and encourages a broader enjoyment of sensory pleasures, including their art collections.
Excelsior wines are designed to attract those wary of character and interest, wanting easy gratification.
It’s hard nowadays to realise how unimportant grape varieties were to drinkers a century ago when the Europeans had amonopoly of top-end stuff.