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From iron ore to flor in South Africa's wild west
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
Top tips for those seeking a bit of sparkle for the holidays this Christmas and New Year. From £14 to £1,438 a bottle. A version of this article is published...
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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From 135 South African rand, £15.50, €16.80, NZ$34.99, AU$40, 250 Norwegian kroner Find this wine Deeply conservative South Africa did...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. I’ll be taking a break in the Languedoc over...
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See also MW Symposium – wines on the frontier and MW Symposium – more on microbes .
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If you have ever been sceptical about the combination of Sauvignon...
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From €11.95, £15.75, 250 South African rand
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We’ve been writing quite a bit about South African wine...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See recent tasting notes on the latest crop of...
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See also South Africa's old-vine marvels and South Africa at a crossroads. Jancis writes The image above gives a rather...
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See also New Wave South Africa – latest crop and South Africa at a crossroads.
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From 215 rand, £18.40, 29.90 Swiss francs, $33.93, €28.75
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5 August 2017 Thanks to a few generous recent contributions the fund is now oversubscribed which is great news. And...
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Five years ago Kathy Jordan of Jordan Wine Estate in Stellenbosch (pictured here) launched a two-fold wine mentoring programme aimed...
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Psychiatrist Olga Antoniadou was a popular, highly commended entrant in our recent wine writing competition. Here she profiles a hero...
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Jancis writes Young Shi is my representative in China and, as a hard-working MW student, commutes between the UK, Shanghai...
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Martin Day, our 25th writing-competition entrant, began his journey into wine in 1996 when, as a 22 year old, he...
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From €13.90, £14.95 Find this wine Yes, yet another South African white as a wine of the week. And why...
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From ZAR80, £12.50 (or £65 per case of 6), $15 Find this wine I did a double take when I...
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