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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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Vin de Constance’s reputation precedes it: it is the wine lauded by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Napoleon, the wine...
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Where I live (Sonoma), one must shop long and hard to find a representative sampling of serious South African wines...
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Is what I describe as a ‘burnt rubber’ aroma or flavour in some – mainly less expensive – South African...
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May-Eliane de Lencquesaing was not home when I visited her South African estate, Glenelly, in Stellenbosch last week, though her...
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Linda Murphy sends this report from Cape Town. Part of South Africa’s preparations for hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup...
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Here are notes on about 80 South African white wines tasted blind last May, in groups by vine variety, for...
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25 Nov 2008 - a first winner has just been announced, a young South African woman. See details here. Hard...
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After pressure from the country’s more fastidious and better educated wine commentators, the South African authorities have finally moved to...
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Below are my notes on 66 wines shown in London recently, supposedly because they were all given either 5 or...
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Tomorrow I will publish some enthusiastic tasting notes on a selection of top South African wines, some of which I...
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Find this wine Here's another, quite different South African wine this week – mainly because the country offers wine lovers...
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The 2008 edition of Platter's Wine Guide, the South African wine bible, has just been published and will be available...
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Of all non European wine-producing countries, South Africa has most energetically hung its hat on the concept of terroir. Not...
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How could I possibly ignore this outfit, a black empowerment enterprise run entirely by women (from the Khayelitsha township)? Ses’fikele...
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At the first day of the annual generic South African tasting in London it was a bit spooky the way...
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It happens every time. I go to South Africa to write about wine and end up writing about tourism. Not...
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