Everyone in Johannesburg talks about the pot-holes - they are less scary than crime. Read more

The dangers of dipstick research are well known. Ask a group of men standing around a TV set in a pub in Johannesburg what they think of gewurztraminer and you'll get a response that would be dramatically different from a comparable crowd in a bar in Alsace. Read more

Henry Wheeler Shaw once observed "The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so." Read more

"One day you're just a kid, then you're the 'new generation', not long after you're the avante-garde, and then, before you realise it, you're just another has-been." Read more

Most dedicated South African wine drinkers probably don't know the name of the most successful brand of Cape wine ever to have been exported from these shores. Read more