My Wine of the Month for April is Fairview ‘Barrel Aged’ Pinotage 2016. The label is slightly different from the one on Fairvi...

Emile Joubert says that Fran ç ois Naude’s Le Vin de François is now a true icon after 11 years. Eleven years after launching his unique P...

A decade or so ago when I was judging at the Veritas awards, one evening I went with a large group of  judges for dinner to Cape Town Fish M...

My Wine of the Month for March is Stanford Hills Jacksons Pinotage 2014. March was a lousy month for me, and hospital time meant I didn...

My Wine of the Month for February is Bellevue Estate P K Morkel Pinotage 2010. After spending a month in the Cape wine lands a...

To Bellevue Estate for lunch. When I'd called there the previous week I was unable to buy a bottle of their new single-vineyard wine fr...

To Kanonkop with Eleanor Cosman of Toronto's South African Wine Society . It's vintage and a critical time to judge exactly w...

2018 "looks like a brilliant year for Pinotage",  it has great tannin structure, good fruit extracts, exceptional colour and flavo...

James Lawrence, writing for WineSearcher.com  is another Pinotage hater who has found now some that  "challenged all my bigotry about ...

To Devon Valley for a flying visit to De Waal Winery to pick up a bottle of Top of the Hill Pinotage , since my original intention to get o...

Sam Venter, for the Port Elizabeth Herald , tasted the winners of the 2017 Pinotage Top 10. I’d challenge any Pinotage- doubter not  to f...

To Durbanville, a pretty rural hilly region north of and close to Cape Town, known for its stunning hill grown cool-climate Sauvignon Blanc...