South Africa’s winemaking industry is evolving and only eight producers who were top of the pops in 2001 still cling to eminence.
A is for anticipation, B is for bottoms up — and T is for tanked. <b>Tim James</b> guides you through the best of the season.
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/ 25 November 2011
Wine lovers in Jo’burg can choose between the Cape’s famous, fancy or fresh wines this weekend.
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/ 18 November 2011
There are an awful lot of South African wines out there — about 7?000. It’s tempting to abandon adventurism and reach for another bottle of the same.
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/ 11 November 2011
Too many producers regard wine journalists as badly paid PR people.
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/ 28 October 2011
Wine sales generally are bad, exports less lucrative than they should be — the industry is bleeding. Is this the best time for experiments?
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/ 21 October 2011
Meerlust has just about everything going for it these days.
Foreigners still arrive to share in the Cape winelands — not in a deluge but in a reassuringly constant trickle.
Artist Cecil Skotnes had an ‘extra-ordinary appetite for enjoyment’. Vital to this was his profound love of wine.
Wineries create a space that stimulates the senses and encourages a broader enjoyment of sensory pleasures, including their art collections.