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Tim James: Are fancy tasting menus killing great wine?

4 May 2026

Wine and food matching has never much interested me beyond the broadest principles. I have vaguely decided, for one example, that for me cheeses tend to go rather better with...

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Hogan new releases

4 May 2026

Hogan Wines is a label established in 2014 by Jocelyn Hogan Wilson, sourcing grapes from selected sites across the Western Cape. She lives on Banhoek Valley farm Dwarsriviershoek, where her...

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Jamie Goode: Have we made too much of drinkability?

4 May 2026

I love smashable red wines. Lighter red wines, pale in colour, low in alcohol with good acidity and no make-up – the sorts of wines that just about drink themselves....

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Anysbos new releases

30 April 2026

Johan and Sue Heyns acquired Anysbos in Bot River in 2008 and have learnt farming the hard way – through trial and error. From law and film to land, with...

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Off the Record Chenin Blanc 2025

28 April 2026

Off the Record is the own label of Bobby Wallace who also makes Paul Wallace Wines on behalf of his parents, Paul and Nicky. Chenin Blanc 2025Price: R300Grapes from Casey’s...

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Prescient Fund Services Winter Series 2026: Call for entries

18 April 2026

Category Reports, sponsored by Prescient Fund Services, will be released across four seasonal series: Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer. Entries are now open for the following reports in the Winter...

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The Giant Periwinkle Camel Spider Pinotage 2024

25 April 2026

It’s a Pinotage that really does taste a little bit like Cinsault, a little bit like Pinot Noir. From own Cape Agulhas vines, as made by Pierre Rabie (day job:...

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Top wines of April 2026

1 May 2026

Here are our 11 most highly rated wines of last month: Anysbos Disdit White blend 2024 – 98 (read original review here) Boschkloof Epilogue Syrah 2024 – 98 (read original...

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New GM at Platter’s following editor’s exit

29 April 2026

Platter’s by Diners Club South African Wine Guide has confirmed that Philip van Zyl is stepping down after 28 years as editor. His wife Cathy, until now associate editor, will...

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Opinion & Analysis

Editorial: Confessions of a middle-aged gummy eater

5 May 2026

My relationship with the commodities of sin is longstanding, though perhaps less lurid than the phrase suggests. As a Stellenbosch University student in the early 1990s, beer and wine featured...

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Chenin Blanc 2020 reappraised

27 April 2026

Earlier in the year, Greg Sherwood MW wrote up a recent tasting of 2020 South African Chenin Blanc that proved “underwhelming”, many wines appearing to lack the acidity required for...

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Tim James: Sherry meets pseudo-sherry in the kitchen

27 April 2026

If I were an impoverished drunk with a sweet tooth (at least a few sweet teeth remaining, I trust), instead of a bourgeois heavy drinker with a sweet tooth, I...

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Recipes

Recipe: Thai Steamed Clams

1 May 2026

Everything that’s great about Thai food – aromatic and spicy. Serves 4 Ingredients: 2 kg frozen clams 1 tbsp (15ml) sunflower oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 cloves of garlic,...
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Prescient Fund Services Chenin Blanc Report 2026: Top 10

14 April 2026

Introduction This year’s Chenin Blanc Report convened by Winemag.co.za and sponsored by Prescient Fund Services is now out. There were 50 entries of single-variety Chenin Blanc and 18 Cape White...

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Prescient Fund Services Shiraz Report 2026: Top 10

14 April 2026

Introduction This year’s Shiraz Report convened by Winemag.co.za and sponsored by Prescient Fund Services is now out. There were 59 entries and these were tasted blind (labels out of sight)...

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Prescient Fund Services Minority Report 2026: Top 10

14 April 2026

Introduction This year’s Minority Report convened by Winemag.co.za and sponsored by Prescient Fund Services is now out. There were 85 entries (33 white wine and 52 red) and these were tasted...

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