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Wine lover Samantha Venter shares her finds with Weekend Post readers each week in Vine Time
IN THE FAMILY: The Four Cousins of Van Loveren – farmer Neil Retief, From 500 cases of wine a year to 1.4-million — it’s taken the Retief family of Robertson three generations and 40 years, along with an innovative spirit and instinctive…
What makes a five-star wine? Despite some critics arguing that Platter’s hands out its five-star ratings a little too liberally these days, opening a 5* wine is still, for most of us, neither a daily nor an ordinary experience
Calitzdorp became SA’s capital of fortified, port-style wines partly by accident, successfully so mostly due to its Klein Karoo soils, climate and terrain — those things that make up terroir — being remarkably similar to the traditional…
Landskroon is one of those venerable names in SA wine that sometimes takes a quiet back seat amid all the clutter of bright new brands shouting for attention from the wine shop shelves, but it’s well worth rediscovering.
