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You’ve made the wines and put them in a bottle. The easy part is over. Now you have to convince someone to buy the stuff. This is called The Dog and Pony Show. Back in the days of Jesse James the Wild West, was… well, it was wild. But it was also poor and desperate [...]
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Vintage is a battle, or more accurately, a very rough game; the best result of which can only be a draw. Nature will never let your ego triumph.
Today Cape Town was smothered by the first warm “Berg Wind” of autumn; pushing up your sinuses with a parched promise of rain. It always arrives announced, [...]
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Early yesterday morning I drove up the N1 from my home in Cape Town turning northwards on the R44 at Wellington, a small town sheltering from the promise of heat in a depression at the foot of the Groenberg mountains.
Beyond Wellington the R44 flings you on to the yellow and ochre swells of the Swartland [...]
Read More: Veraison Road Trip
The quality is great. We have just unloaded our first batch of gorgeous Shannon Vineyard Pinot Noir from cool climate Elgin. The grower of these magnificent globes, James Downes, is a perfectionist. His vines look like they have been trimmed with nail clippers and the cover-crop between the vines looks like it was cut and combed by Bianca, my wife’s hairdresser.
Read More: Crush Diary
Pinotage is a South African variety of grape. In 1925 Professor Perold of the University of Stellenbosch “invented” Pinotage by crossing Pinot Noir and a relatively obscure Rhone variety, Cinsault. While there is Pinotage grown elsewhere in the world the vast majority of vines are planted in South Africa.
Like its “mother” Pinot Noir it is [...]
Read More: Making Pinotage and Learning Humility
In April next year WOSA – the international marketing arm of the SA wine industry (www.wosa.co.za) will be hosting “Cape Wines 2006” at the Cape Town Convention Centre.
Buyers, agents and wine writers will be flying to the Cape winelands – the most beguiling and beautiful environment to taste and enjoy our wines.
One of our natural [...]
Read More: Searching for the Soul of South African Wine
Headlines the world over lament the desperate state of the French wine industry on a daily basis. Consider for a moment the drought our winelands are grappling with, unprecedented oversupply and consequent wine dumping, a strong currency and the recent onset of utterly unprofitable viticulture. What emerges is a rather bleak picture of our own [...]
The numbers 082 162 rule his life. A self-confessed slave to the winemaking tribe, he finds the sultry temptations of the Weathergirl at the other end of the line frustratingly irresistible.
When you catch yourself swirling a glass of water and smelling it before taking a gulp – you’re in trouble. This is an obvious sign [...]
Read More: Wild Ferment – The Weathergirl
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In July 2009 we moved our Tasting Room to the Doornbosch Centre in Strand Road, Stellenbosch
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