Harvest Time – Billy Hughes (Hughes Family Wines)
Harvest time – it’s the most important time of year for our winemakers. Billy Hughes of Hughes family wines shares his notes from the field for the 2019 harvest....
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Notes from Behind the Cellar Door
Organic farmer creating a natural ecosystem
Tyrrel Myburgh is the avant garde and experimental winemaker behind organic winery Joostenberg and one half of Myburgh Bros.
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France trained winery owner redefining South African wines
Alex Dale is co-owner of Radford Dale and he’s applying his Burgundian love of terroir to bring out the best in South African grapes. We talk to him about wines of SA versus France.
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Harvest Time 2019: Fieldnotes from our winemakers
Harvest Time – Adam Mason (is) Raised by Wolves
Adam Mason is the winemaker and founder of Raised by Wolves, his "side project" and love project – separate from his role as head of winemaking at the larger, more comm...
Harvest time – Gavin Brand of Cape Rock Wines
We met up with Gavin Brand, winemaker for Cape Rock Wines and owner of his own Landscape Architecture firm, to find out exactly what happens in harvest time. Harvest is o...
Discover the Region
Swartland: the not-so new region on the block everyone is talking about
Meaning “black land” and historically known for growing wheat, recently, the name Swartland seems to be on every wino’s lips… fast becoming recognised for less expensive but great quality wines. We chat to the winemakers to uncover the secrets of Swartland…
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Wines of the Season: Floral Notes
Discover wines with floral notes and flower aromatics.
With the help of our winemakers we select our best wines inspired by the perfumes of Mother Nature.
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Wine FYI
What is semi-sweet wine anyway? Misnomer or fact, we look at the wine sweetness chart and what falls where
We often hear the terms 'dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet or sweet' in reference to wine. Dry or sweet are easy enough for most of us to differentiate but, when encoun...
Wine terms everyone should know
We all have our favourites and know a wine we like when we taste it, but it is often much harder to describe them, right? Whether you are an avid wine drinker w...
Grapes of the Season
Summer wines: blanc de noirs and rosés
Pink and orange is the new black when it comes to South African summertime…
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