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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
• 2 min read
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South Africa's Trophy Wine Show 2025
Tamlyn Currin
Friday 22 August 2025
• 7 min read
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From £7.25, €13.49 Find this wine As I write my very first wine of the week, I recall over 30...
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In southern France there is evidence of a newfound respect for Clairette. Food and wine writer Malu Lambert suggests the...
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Tim Jackson MW would like us all to take more notice of the great grape of Sauternes, in dry form...
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A tonic for those winter blues.
From 170 rand, €16.69, £16.69, CA$28.40, $23.25, NZ$46.99
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It was Danish...
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Richard presents almost 170 tasting notes of the best red wines he tasted on a recent trip to South Africa...
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Richard presents well over 100 tasting notes of some of South Africa's best current white wines. See also this overview...
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Richard enthuses about his recent trip to South Africa while considering the difficult context in which wine producers have to...
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White burgundy apart, it's amazing how many of the greatest Chardonnays today are grown in the southern hemisphere. Seen here...
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Marc Kent branches out on the Cape South Coast. Boekenhoutskloof in Franschhoek may be a nightmare to spell but it...
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A South African bargain that is certified organic but is effectively biodynamic too. From 120 rand, £10.49, €13.50, 198 Swedish...
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From 129 South African rand, €10.20, £10.90, $18.79, SG$31.50, 126.60 Danish krone Find the 2017 Some things in life are...
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A shorter version of this article is published in the Financial Times. See also David and Nadia spread their wings...
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See also Julia's tasting article yesterday on another famous Cape winemaking couple, the Alheits. ‘Don’t expect Swartland wine producers to...
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‘Welcome to the Chris Alheit Show’, said Richard Kelley MW of Dreyfus Ashby, Alheit’s UK importer, as he introduced this...
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20 September 2018 Mark Solms reports on events yesterday: 'The liquidation application has been postponed indefinitely. Now we have to...
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Are you a woman? (I’m delighted to report that we have been receiving more entries in our seminal wine competition...
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