Tag: South Africa

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

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Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 1/3/21

Happy New Year! Welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web.

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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,

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