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Published on: 16 Feb 11

Buying guide: Chenin Blanc Challenge

Chenin Blanc is probably the world’s most versatile grape variety, capable of producing wines in all manner of styles and at all levels of the market.
 
Published on: 03 Jan 11

Buying guide: Red blends

Blending involves the combination of varieties with different but complementary characteristics to achieve greater complexity.
 
Published on: 30 Nov 10

Buying guide: Rosé and Blanc de Noir

The huge growth of the ‘pink’ category around the world in recent times is well-documented, but on the basis of this tasting is difficult to understand.
 
Published on: 30 Nov 10

Buying guide: Nedbank Green Wine Awards

Wines entered were divided up into categories according to grape variety or style and tasted blind by the fi ve-person panel, with scoring done according to the 20-point/5 Star system.
 
Published on: 22 Oct 10

Buying guide: Viognier

A tasting of 35 examples of Viognier is not something to be relished: the wines are typically high in alcohol by volume and carry pronounced residual sugars, this combination making the line-up particularly tiring to work through.
 
Published on: 22 Oct 10

Buying guide: Gewürztraminer

The wines under review were all pleasant enough without generating real excitement.
 
Published on: 22 Oct 10

Buying guide: Riesling

There have been concentrated efforts to uplift the quality of South African Riesling in recent times, but it seems that improvements are slow in coming.
 
Published on: 22 Oct 10

Buying guide: Semillon

This category may be small but it consistently produces wines of the highest quality. It’s unlikely that Semillon will ever have a very great following, but for those in the know, there are wines of great distinction to be had.
 
Published on: 22 Oct 10

Buying guide: Chardonnay

Chardonnay is meant to be enjoying resurgence but the Wine magazine panel was a little underwhelmed upon completing this tasting.
 
Published on: 22 Oct 10

Buying guide: White blends

This category includes some of the most exciting wines currently emerging from South Africa, but is inordinately difficult to judge, requiring panel members to move from Bordeauxstyle blends that are typically tight and focused to Mediterranean-style wines that are rich and broad to everything in between.
 
 

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