Tag: South Africa

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

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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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I’ll Drink to That: Winemaker Abrie Beeslaar of Kanonkop, South Africa

Episode 371 of I’ll Drink to That! was released recently. We are at episode 371! Sort of can’t believe it,

The Best South African Wines, Part II: Cape Wine 2008 Scores

I went to South Africa to learn about South African wine, and the primary way for me to do that

Images of the South African Winelands

For those who are interested, here are some of the photographs I took while in South Africa. The winelands, as

Sadie Family Wines, Swartland, South Africa: Current Releases

I went to South Africa to learn about its wines. This meant understanding first hand what the country’s wine regions

The Best South African Wines: Tasting the 2008 Cape Winemakers Guild

During my week in South Africa, I had a lot of educational experiences that involved serious spates of tasting, but

Some Thoughts on South African Wine

I’ve now been in South Africa for about three full days, and I’ve tasted, by rough estimation, about 300 or