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Wine collectors' cellar

A Springs couple enjoy entertaining friends in their subterranean wine cellar, with its impressive selection of collector’s pieces.
 

Cider reveals it's fizz

There are a number of parallels between winemaking and cider production, as well as distinctions – with renewed focus on style, cider is creating quite the fizz.
 

Home cellars: Geoff and Tanya Kroon

A cellar dug into a mountain does more than provide ideal storage conditions – it’s a unique location for entertaining guests.
 

Home cellars: Ronald Gault

Despite once heading one of SA’s top financial service firms, for Ronald Gault wine is anything but an investment. Rather it’s an art and a passion.
 

Counterfeit Labels - are you buying a fake wine?

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but in the wine industry the unscrupulous practice of counterfeiting has severe consequences for the winemaker and wine investor.
 

Home cellars: Richard and Anine Voller

When space was an issue, this Cape Town couple decided to build a cellar beneath their house, but flooding nearly put an end to their dream.
 

The Pinotage debate

The argument might be terribly passé – but the coffee Pinotage fascination seems never-ending with a number of other varietals adding their own coffee-mocha-toffee-chocolate labels to shelves. Should we start serving our wine with our breakfast croissant?
 

Home cellars: Christine Rudman

Whether your wine collection is stored in a state-of-the-art cellar or simply in a few racks under a flight of stairs, you’ll find that you can learn from the advice of wine authority Christine Rudman who has two unique home cellars.
 

Storing your wine

To give your wine its best chance of reaching peak condition you need to protect it. Throughout its life, the fruit mellows, the colour changes, tannins, acids and wood components soften, and complexity increases.
 

Why wine turns you on

The vocabulary of wine appreciation is a crazy thing. Yet, it's curious what turns people on.
 
 

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