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On South Africa’s remote West Coast an unlikely fortified-wine revival is taking place. Malu Lambert reports. Saldanha’s castle is an improbable one. As you stream into the West Coast outpost...
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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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Tim Jackson MW spells out exactly how a controversial variety can be persuaded to make great wine.
Kanonkop have long...
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More than 100 current releases reviewed, many shown by the producers themselves. They deserve your attention. Above, typical old bush...
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Wine journalist Felicity Carter opens our eyes to an under-appreciated way of maintaining biodiversity in the vineyard.
In 2005, Rupert...
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This is the last of four articles about some of the 47 applicants for this year's Golden Vines Diversity Awards...
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The second instalment of our old-vine wine stories is set in South Africa (go to Lebanon for the first). For...
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This entry in our WWC22 competition explores the post-pandemic regeneration of South Africa's wine industry. For more great wine writing...
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What is preoccupying South Africa's liveliest wine producers? Above, left to right, Charles Back, Marelise Niemann, Peter-Allan Finlayson and John...
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Does South Africa lead the way in regeneration? And how about transformation…? Nearly 90 current releases reviewed.
Tamlyn writes It...
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7 July 2022 As a companion piece to my article today on Eben Sadie's latest change of direction, I thought...
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Sadie Family Wines are being redesigned from the ground up in order to withstand our changing climate. See also today's...
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We revisit the South African wine people of colour profiled in 2020 and assess the rate of transformation there.
Two...
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Wine producers flock to London and share their woes. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial...
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Some crisp, aromatic alternatives – none budget-busting. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, the...
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Pictured, Iona's wine estate looking unusually balmy in South Africa's cool Elgin district.
See also our previous collections of tasting...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
I wonder whether curious wine lovers realise how...
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Following on from yesterday's Stellenbosch fights back we look at current issues in South African wine. A version of this...
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