Video: tasting 53 Cap Classiques, sparkling wines from South Africa
Jamie Goode and Treve Ring meet with some of South Africa’s top winemakers to taste through 53 Cap Classiques. These
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Vin de Constance 2018 – the new release of this famous sweet wine
Back in the 1980s South African winery Klein Constantia revived a piece of vinous history. In the 18th and 19th
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The wines of Wolf and Woman, Swartland, South Africa
Website: https://wolfandwomanwines.com/ Jolandie Fouché is the woman behind Wolf and Woman. After a decent slice of experience working for other
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Highlights: Bosman Nature & Sun Grenache Noir 2020 Wellington, South Africa
Saw this on the shelf in Waitrose Canary Wharf today and it caught my eye. Supermarket ranges are so big
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Scions of Sinai: the wines of Bernhard Bredell
Website: https://scionsofsinai.com/ Scions of Sinai: the wines of Bernhard Bredell Website: https://scionsofsinai.com/ Scions of Sinai: the wines of Bernhard Bredell
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Tasting the Winemag and Prescient Best of Category South African Wines
Websites: https://winemag.co.za/ and https://www.prescient.co.za/ This was a really interesting lunch, hosted at High Timber, to showcase the Winemag and Prescient
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Meeting Mr Chenin: the wines of Ken Forrester, who has helped make South African Chenin Blanc famous
I’m sitting with Ken Forrester outside his tasting room on a sunny November afternoon, looking across one of his vineyards
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On the Chenin Blanc trail in Stellenbosch, visiting four old vineyards and tasting the wines
Today I spent the afternoon visiting vineyards. Not an unusual activity for me, but this was part of the second
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Lismore: tasting the latest releases from Samantha O’Keefe in Greyton, South Africa
Website: https://www.lismore.co.za/ Samantha O’Keefe is a pioneering wine grower in Greyton, where she first planted a wine farm in 2004.
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Video: tasting old South African wines back to the 1950s
Bill Winshaw had a collection of South African wine from his time running the Stellenbosch Farmer’s Winery. His grandsons, JP
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