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Opinion & Analysis

Tim James: Cape wine’s two cultures of taste

18 May 2026

Two recent tastings reminded me of divergences at the broadly-upper end of Cape wine going beyond the wines themselves into wider cultural effects. As I write, I’m wondering if I...

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Scions of Sinai new releases

18 May 2026

Bernhard Bredell established his label Scions of Sinai in 2016, the name inspired by Sinai Hill, a granitic outcrop in the Helderberg foothills. The release of the 2025 vintage therefore...

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Paul Wallace Reflection Chardonnay 2025

15 May 2026

Elgin’s strongest variety, white or red, is (fight me) Chardonnay and Paul Wallace Wines (founders Paul and Nicky plus winemaker son Bobby) have produced a fine example in the form...

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Leeu Passant Stellenbosch Chardonnay vertical: 2024 – 2015

14 May 2026

Leeu Passant claims its Chardonnay “has established itself as a benchmark of South African excellence” and, having recently tasted a vertical spanning the maiden 2015 to the current-release 2024 (only...

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Glenelly Lady May 2021

10 May 2026

The pinnacle red blend that is Lady May from Stellenbosch property Glenelly is a triumph – tasted alongside the 2015 and 2017, both profoundly accomplished in their own right, the...

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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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Mveme Raats new releases

10 May 2026

Having long produced only a single wine – the Bordeaux-style red blend De Compostella, first released in 2004 – Mzo Mvemve and Bruwer Raats expanded the MR portfolio with the...

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OIV State of the World Wine Sector in 2025

14 May 2026

The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) recently released its annual overview of world wine. Key trends as follows:  Vineyard area keeps shrinkingThe world’s vineyard surface has now fallen...

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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...

Opinion & Analysis

Michael Fridjhon: Bordeaux’s bubble bursts – and lessons for Cape wine

13 May 2026

An interesting corollary of the general decline in wine sales worldwide has been the collapse of the wine investment market. This is not something immediately evident to the average South...

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Greg Sherwood MW: Does the wine market need recalibrating?

7 May 2026

The fine wine market currently resembles a fractured landscape. A lopsided hourglass where the neck is tightening and the sand refuses to flow. On one side, you have the “trophy”...

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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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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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Reports

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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