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Top Cape wines benchmarked

Tuesday 18 January 2011
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South African wine writer Tim James sends this report of a recent blind comparison of some of the best wines of the Cape with their smart, and much more expensive, French peers. I see that there was no comparison of Chardonnays. Last Saturday night I happened to serve my last bottle of Glen Carlou Chardonnay 1996 blind with Jean-Marc Pillot's Puligny Folatières 1996 to a table of wine lovers. The South African wine was much preferred to the (pretty oxidised) white burgundy – JR

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