The dangers of dipstick research are well known. Ask a group of men standing around a TV set in a pub in Johannesburg what they think of gewurztraminer and you'll get a response that would be dramatically different from a comparable crowd in a bar in Alsace. Read more
"One day you're just a kid, then you're the 'new generation', not long after you're the avante-garde, and then, before you realise it, you're just another has-been." Read more
Most dedicated South African wine drinkers probably don't know the name of the most successful brand of Cape wine ever to have been exported from these shores. Read more
