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Published on: 06 Oct 06

Neil Pendock: August 2006

Evolution, biodiversity and survival of the fittest. Where does SA wine fit in?
 
Published on: 25 Aug 06

Neil Pendock: July 2006

Is it a gentle whiff, a soft fragrance or a bold bouquet Aromatic analysis is not to be sniffed at…
 
Published on: 21 Aug 06

Neil Pendock: June 2006

Oak chips in Bordeaux will move it from cultural product to kitsch wine.
 
Published on: 04 Aug 06

Neil Pendock: May 2006

Cape Town is a Gay Capital of the World, so it's appropriate that we don't have a shortage of naïvely camp cuvées.
 
Published on: 05 May 06

Neil Pendock: March 2006

The last time I met Anton Rupert, he told me he wanted to send me to the South Pole. I thought it was because I'd made one rude comment too many about a Rupert & Rothschild wine, but it was no Antarctic exile he had in mind for me but rather a chance to visit his latest trans-frontier peace park, a wildlife project that increasingly became his passion in retirement.
 
Published on: 09 Mar 06

Neil Pendock: January 2006

Toasting your audience is one thing, but something else entirely when it's Pinot Noir with Coke in the glass.
 
Published on: 09 Mar 06

Neil Pendock: February 2006

Wine writers go one better than Symbolists, taking representation to its logical conclusion of transubstantiation.
 
Published on: 30 Jan 06

Neil Pendock: December 2005

William Kentridge, "37th most important artist in the world" according to that arbiter of art, the Sunday Times Lifestyle, sounds a bit like the title of his first animated film, Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris, if you allow for inflation.
 
Published on: 11 Jan 06

Neil Pendock: November 2005

The wheels are falling off the Michelin Guide Rouge, Bible of European (and, with a New York "Green Guide" to be released this year, American) gastronomy. The speed wobbles started last year when a rogue inspector, Pascal Remy, alleged that many reviews remained the same, year after year, saving on the tiresome hassle (and cost) of re-evaluation. Then came the award of a "bib gourmand" to a building site in Belgium...
 
Published on: 10 Jan 06

Neil Pendock: October 2005

The bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar has been something of an annus horribilis for France with new defeats all round: of Paris as host city for the Olympic Games 2012, of a European constitution by French voters, and when Ridgeview Estate in East Sussex snatched the laurels for best sparkling wine at the International Wine and Spirit Competition, the fall of France seemed complete.
 
 

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