Pink is not usually a colour - even when it comes to wine - that occupies much of my mind, so it surprised me that so many wine 'things' pink have been a part of my life recently. Read more

Mark Solms, 'director' of the Solms Delta estate on the eastern banks of the Dwars River more or less equidistant from Franschhoek and Stellenbosch, went to great pains to explain to the retailers and wine writers packing out the estate's Fyndraai restaurant that its latest release is not a port. Read more

It mentions the word blend, therefore it has wine connotations. Gotta love it. http://getsocialmedia.net/2010/07/will-the-vuvuzela-blend/

Advertising agency Draftfcb South Africa's Group CEO told Cape Talk and 702 listeners today that research has highlighted that all World Cup host nations have suffered from post-event depression. Read more

For those of us - and there are many, from logistics co-ordinators to writers to tasters to designers to database wizards - who gather each year for a very brief three months to work on Platter's (read my conflict of interest alert), the last week in June is a critical date. Read more