Tag: South Africa

All White Sunday

What are friends for? Supplying you with wine, of course! And that proved to be my role last Sunday evening when I went to visit Mike. I had brought three
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Funk

Natural wine isn’t for everyone. How can it be? We barely agree on…. anything. How could we possibly all agree on wine made to emulate how it was probably made
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Contrail

I am not a fan of flying for a number of reasons. First and possibly most annoying is the deceit: that is how sleek and sexy planes look
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Painted Wolf

I am a big fan of The Painted Wolf Roussanne. In fact, if you see it, don’t ask, just buy it. So while standing on one of the
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Unlabelled

With no label or as much as an indication of country of origin on the bottle, we hadn’t the foggiest idea of what to expect. Though to be honest, I was
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Smells Like a Ford

Every so not so often, you happen to come across one of those down to the bone awesome people, who just happen to share the same interests that
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More Sémillon

My infatuation with all things Sémillon (French word derived from “to sow”) is no secret (read all about it here). Therefore each discovery of a new expression (sometimes it could
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Racy Cecily

I’ve always had two minds about people who name their wines after themselves or someone they know. On the one side, that’s a tall order to encapsulate a person
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Sankara’s New World

Jean Wandimi of thewineandfoodreview.com and Penelope Kirui of creative-ambition.com began an exciting social collective where open themed conversations can take place between all wine lovers on Wednesdays from 10 am to noon!
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Savoury for me

Different occasions call for different wines; yet with that said I seem to consistently prefer more savoury earthy Pinot Noirs to their more fruity expressions. This is down purely to personal
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