Wednesday, 3 July, 2024

To be quite franc

It all began with a grape.
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Wednesday, 31 January, 2024

Love is in the air

While many love wine, I often wonder how much love colours the wine that we love.
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Monday, 25 December, 2023

A foundation of friendship

MR de Compostella, officially founded in 2004, celebrates the journey of the two winemakers who founded the company.
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Monday, 3 July, 2023

Klaas is in session

Get to know Sharrol Mukendi-Klaas, the winner of the inaugural ASI Gérard Basset Foundation Sommelier Scholarship.
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Friday, 10 March, 2023

The journey of a grape

“Wine is not just the fermented juice of grapes,” Graham Harding argues in his 2005 book, ‘A Wine Miscellany’.
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Monday, 4 July, 2022

KZN winemaker walks an unparalled path

Thornton Pillay, the first South African winemaker of Indian origin, works at The Drift Wine Estate, Black Oystercatcher, and Bruce Jack Wines.
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Thursday, 21 April, 2022

The Pebbles Project drives change | #wineforgood

Pebbles Project aims to uplift individual lives and reach the greater community, operating on wine farms in the Western Cape.
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Monday, 4 October, 2021

The rise and rise of organic wine

Spier’s organic winemaker, Tania Kleintjes, shows that organic wine brings much to the table.
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Monday, 21 May, 2018

The value of luxury

Maxhosa knitwear is an international mohair brand whose humble origins are rooted in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
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Tuesday, 7 March, 2017

The path to something great

Four roads diverged in a vineyard, and I attempted to take the clay paths less travelled by. The path led me to Asara in Stellenbosch, to Nederburg’s new vines in Paarl, to Bouchard Finlayson in Hermanus, and to Lourensford in Somerset West.
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Monday, 12 December, 2016

A worldclass African vineyard

A recent New York Times article headline declared: “Eating something really good has a humbling effect.”
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