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Thursday 11 December 2025
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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
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Saturday 22 November 2025
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South Africa's Trophy Wine Show 2025
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Friday 22 August 2025
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From €18.95, $22.99, £21.55 Find this wine I write as I approach the end of a week of intensive tasting...
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22 Jan 2015 Today's Throwback Thursday article from our archives was written a full seven years ago and, read in...
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For a guide to all these regional and stylistic collections of tasting notes, see Sorting through the assortments. South Africa...
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This article is also published in the Financial Times. In my little puddle of vinous life I am becoming aware...
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In the wake of yesterday's news of a sterling performance by women in the Master of Wine exams, comes news...
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From 150 rand, £14.25, €22.95 Find this wine Eat your heart out, Pessac-Léognan. I tasted this wine blind while researching...
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From 131 rand, €13.95, £17.79, $16.99 Find this wine I thought I was being terribly recherché by choosing a varietal...
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This article also appeared in the Financial Times. See my detailed tasting notes in South Africa's exciting new wave.I'm not...
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10 July 2014 – Seven years on and my, how quickly the South African wine scene has changed. Compare and...
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See also my overview in South Africa's wind of change.
As I hinted when introducing this recent wine of the...
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From £22.46, HK$229.65 Find this wine
I am getting increasingly excited about the huge strides that South African winemakers have...
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Last September we published Vintage internship offered to a woman in wine, news of a temporary position being offered by...
Book reviews
Paul O'Doherty reviews the latest crop of wine books. Wines of the New South Africa – Tradition and Revolution Tim...
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See this guide to all our autumn collections. We have long maintained that South Africa is the source of some...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. 'I'm not a consultant', insists Rosa...
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From 125.00 rand, $26.50, £21, €24.50 Find this wine During a recent look at what London online retailer Swig are...
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