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From iron ore to flor in South Africa's wild west
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Thursday 11 December 2025
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Sparkling wines for the 2025 festive season
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 22 November 2025
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South Africa's Trophy Wine Show 2025
Tamlyn Currin
Friday 22 August 2025
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The fine wines of South Africa deserve much more attention than they receive. The following are all tasting notes I...
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This is the first of three articles about South African wine that we'll we publishing this week – JR. NOTE...
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South African wine writer Tim James sends this report of a recent blind comparison of some of the best wines...
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From £18.79, 33 Swiss francs a bottle and $320 a dozen Find this wine Everything is new about this ground-breaking...
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Update 27 May 2011: Charles Banks is also involved with the new Sandhi venture in California, making a burgundian-style Wine...
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There are signs of dynamic life in South Africa's backwoods Swartland region, source of an increasing number of truly distinctive...
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You may think that 2010 will go down in history as the year South Africa hosted the football World Cup...
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Pausing only to mail our postal votes for today's election, Nick and I flew to Singapore last Monday night. Last...
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South African wine writer Tim James of www.grape.co.za polled 26 respected observers of the South African wine scene with the...
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You may remember our article Cape winelands under threat about the mining prospecting proposed in some of South Africa's most...
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South Africa's wine producers, whose generic campaign is founded on the special nature of the Cape ecosystem ('a natural environment...
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Waterkloof is the relatively new operation in South Africa created by Paul Boutinot (pictured here) and, I think, a name...
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Hardly is the northern hemisphere wine harvest over (in fact when last I heard, some Canadian wine producers were yet...
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See a new report on the potential for safely using lighter bottles for sparkling wines here . Unlike most, South...
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Quite a stir has been caused in the South Africa by wine writer Tim James’s discovery that Kleine Zalze, Vineyard...
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I did tweet about this at the time but I would just like to thank all those South African wine...
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