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• Chop Challenge

  
  Pendock Uncorked — Authority: 117
  While Afrikaners may no longer call the political shots in SA, their loud and innate democratic urges have been transferred to matters more important: which is the best boerewors in SA (a Checkers promotion featuring a distinctly vegetarian chiskop looking Nataniël)? The best game biltong to match Stellenbosch Hills ...
  6 days ago

• 50 Years of Pinotage: the 70s

  
  Pendock Uncorked — Authority: 117
  Five wines from the second decade of a five decade Pinotage tasting held at Beyers Truter’s Vermont beach house on Monday.The most unexpected wine from the seventies was a Simonsig 78. Reading back my tasting notes of blackcurrant tea and cassis, I did a double take, for it read like a note on Cabernet [...]Related ...
  2 weeks ago

• 50 Years of Pinotage: Preparations

  
  Times LIVE Blogs - Posts — Authority: 154
  The hottest ticket in SA wine this year is the one to the vertical tasting of five decades of Pinotage at the Vermont beach house of the Prophet of Pinotage, Beyers Truter, this morning. Altydgedacht winemaker Etienne Louw and I drove up yesterday to help IWSC Winemaker of the Year Abrie Beeslaer and Beyers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Curious Wines New Zealand Tasting, Dublin

  
  Sour Grapes — Authority: 110
  Second of my visits to the Antipodes in a week. First Australia, now New Zealand. Curious wines and Joyce Austin (from New Zealand Boutique Wines ) presented a great range of New Zealand wines on Friday evening. Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinotage. Whodathunkit? But we drunk it. Anyhoo, Curious wines ...
  3 weeks ago

• 10 of the best South African wines

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Whether its honeyed chenin blancs or silky pinot noirs South Africas wines are improving in leaps and bounds.
  3 weeks ago

• Does Coffee Reduce Diversity?

  
  Pendock Uncorked — Authority: 116
  As the conversation flurried around the circular lunch table at La Colombe yesterday like the low flying clouds rushing around outside in confusion as yet another cold front hit the Cape peninsula (Duncan Savage has already lost half the potential fruit from his Cape Point Isliedh vineyard), conversation turned to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diners does a WOSA

  
  Pendock Uncorked — Authority: 117
  Linda Manzini, MD of Diners Club, is like Oprah Winfey, but with better hair: dynamic, enthusiastic, with an infectious laugh that makes you feel like an old friend even though you’ve only just met. Having the good fortune to sit opposite her at yesterday’s blow-out lunch of Wagu cheeks at the One&Only to ...
  4 weeks ago

• ****+ $ Nederburg Pinotage, 2007, Western Cape, South Africa - Wine Review and Rating

  
  Spirit of Wine — Authority: 133
  By way of background: Nederburg Pinotage is a highly-regarded, bargain-priced pinotage from the Western Cape area of South Africa. Winemaking was said to have begun in the farming tracts here as early as 1937. Pinotage, a cross between pinot noir and cinsaut (also called hermitage) is a popular single-varietal in ...
  5 weeks ago

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