Now here’s a tricky trivial pursuit question. Which was the first South African winery to produce a serious white Bordeaux-style blend?

There’s a school of thought requiring that if you have nothing nice to say about a wine you should say nothing at all.

Flood damage to the Orange River vineyards is a heartbreaking business – at a time when the enormous local cellar is repositioning itself.

A few bits of gossip, harder news, and feel-good and feel-bad stuff.

Grappa is an original wine culture nip. Smart South Africans are vigorously reinventing the classic Italian spirits with aplomb, outwitting the inventers.

He paid R323 million for a diamond the same day his Delaire cabernet scored five stars. It’s big time on Helshoogte.

There might well be good reasons for having the huge panel tastings favoured by Wine magazine

Pressed against the mountain high above the Franschhoek valley, with deep terraces cut into the still-raw red-earthed steepness,

Black, green and gold indeed – the Swartland could be the ANC’s official wine region, if the leadership abandoned the comfortingly branded world of whisky and glitzy champagne and if ordinary members took to wine.

Maybe because less is always more, under-rated semillon virtually always delivers pleasure.