It has become an established tradition to hold a tasting of old South African wines prior to the Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show.

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We're well into the season of competition results, which is no doubt interesting for some. I learn nothing about wine from those, but happily for me it's also the start of the statistics season.Read more

Norman McFarlane has won this year's Wine Writers Award, made at the Franschhoek Literary festival.Read more

Some wines are too good to spit.Read more

A significant percentage of the fine wine buying population expects each and every purchase to bring the grail of the perfect bottle within grasping distanceRead more