Eben Sadie is not cheerful about the 2012 harvest in the Swartland - especially for winegrowers like himself whose vineyards are, for the most part, not irrigated. Read more

Oh dear - the wine competition season is looming. And if it is possible for something to loom with vigour and even aggression, the "Top 100" is doing so. Read more

Cinderella and workhorse were favourite clichés to describe the role of chenin blanc in the local wine industry of olden days. Read more

Greenness - underripe aromas and flavours - has long been recognised as a problem in South African red wines. Especially in the Bordeaux varieties (cabernets franc and sauvignon, and merlot). Read more

If you think that Cederberg has the highest vineyards in the Cape, think again. Once it was true, but, high they are, at over 1000 metres ("Vites Altae" as the bottle capsules proclaim) they're nothing like Daniel de Waal's vines at Mount Sutherland Read more