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Published on: 01 May 07

Neil Pendock: May 2007

SA Sauvignon Blanc producers have discovered a new additive and this time it's a totally legal one - wood. A new wave of barrel fermented Sauvignon Blanc is making statement whites of character a million miles away from the Cloudy Bay-inspired recipe of felines micturating on a gooseberry bush.
 
Published on: 25 Apr 07

Neil Pendock: March 2007

Wine, Art, Sex, Money, Brad Pitt in boxer shorts…and the Jacobsdal connection.
 
Published on: 08 Mar 07

Neil Pendock: February 2007

It's a Sauvignon Blanc scandal - this time in New Zealand. What can we learn from it?
 
Published on: 05 Feb 07

Neil Pendock: November 2006

Where were you when the lights went out? - undoubtedly the worst film of Doris Day's career.
 
Published on: 29 Jan 07

Neil Pendock: January 2007

Reviewing Jean-Noël Jeanneney's book Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge (U. Chicago Press, 2006), the Financial Times sets the stakes high: "In the postmodern world, the battleground is the internet. Here, search engines determine what tomorrow's generations will click on, learn and think." And perhaps even drink.
 
Published on: 17 Jan 07

Neil Pendock: April 2006

Anton Rupert passed away in January. He was an unlikely billionaire.
 
Published on: 22 Dec 06

Neil Pendock: December 2006

Can terroir be consistent across hundreds of kilometres in south africa?
 
Published on: 22 Dec 06

The Italian influences on SA wines

In the rich tapestry that makes up the current South African wine scene, Italian immigrants have played a role. Neil Pendock takes a look at their influence.
 
Published on: 09 Nov 06

Neil Pendock: October 2006

Two decades separated them. themes were similar, yet the tastes reflected change.
 
Published on: 30 Oct 06

Neil Pendock: September 2006

The most important lobby in the wine fraternity - the wine consuming public - was never polled for its opinion of transformation initiatives.
 
 

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