Tag: South Africa
Hella Good: Tasting Notes from Hella Chenin
You’d be hard pressed to find someone more excited than I about the ascendancy of Chenin Blanc from obscurity to—well,
Hella Chenin Festival: May 3, Berkeley, CA
Here in California wine country, it seems like we’re treated to wine tasting events for nearly every grape variety and
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 2/9/25
Hello and welcome to this week’s dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 2/2/25
Hello and welcome to this week’s dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 1/26/25
Hello and welcome to this week’s dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Tasting the Swartland Revolution
When I first went to South Africa in 2008 for the Cape Wine convention, I knew next to nothing about
Drink for Good: Buying Wine for Social Impact
Sometimes it feels like we’re all going somewhere in a handbasket, and very fast. Bad things are happening all over
The Elegance of Age: Tasting South Africa’s Oldest Vines
Old vines make better wines. Like so many broad generalizations in the wine industry, that’s a verifiably false statement. Plenty
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 10/30/22
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Putting South African Chardonnay in a Global Context
Chardonnay. A grape both worshipped and reviled. It is the magical stuff of Montrachet, making $18,000 bottles of the most
“Blind Ambition” Is the Wine Movie the World Needs Right Now
People of my generation will always remember the infamous Jamaican bobsled team. The unlikely story of four guys from the
Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 4/4/21
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Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 1/31/21
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Vinography Images: The Dark Land
Posts rise out of the dark brush of a vineyard near Porseleinberg in Swartland, South Africa. Literally translating as “black
Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 1/3/21
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Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 12/13/20
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Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 8/2/20
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Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 7/26/20
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Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 7/19/20
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