A focus on organic wines:
1. The vineyards: Chris Mullineux, winemaker
and viticulturist at Tulbagh Mountain Vineyards, tells of the challenges and
the value of growing grapes without the aid of the agro-chemical and
fertiliser industries
2.
The wines: An increasing number of Cape wines are
going green. Tim James reports on a tasting
3. The biodynamic extreme: Biodynamic farming adds
spiritual and cosmological elements to the organic equation. Ingrid Motteux
visited the few Cape adherents of an inevitably controversial practice
When ‘improving’ wine destroys it: While his
accusations of flavourants being added to some Cape wines continue to have
consequences, Michael Fridjhon considers a vital question: what are the
acceptable limits regarding the processes and additives that increasingly
characterise modern wine production?
Scandal!Tim James looks at wine scandals,
and how Austria eventually emerged triumphant from one of the worst
World wine glut:More and more wine is being
produced (but not drunk) internationally. It is a particularly grim outlook for
Europe, suggests Alex Dale – but the New World has no room for smugness
Tasting terroir: Do the wards within the Wine of
Origin system provide a basis for wines to express terroir? Angela Lloyd
reports on a tasting designed to find out
The Widow’s sour grapes: As always, a sideways and
slightly sour insider’s look at happenings in the Cape wine scene
