Spent a few days in Hemel-en-Aarde, looking around. This is a cool-ish climate wine region in a valley that meets the coast right by the lovely town of Hermanus, about…
A great wine shop in Hermanus, and why we need to support good wine shops
I love shopping for wine. If you are a wine journalist and you don’t love shopping for wine, then find a new job. I don’t want to read what you…
Flotsam & Jetsam Cinsault, tasted on camera
Another Cinsault! This time, it’s from Chris and Suzaan Alheit. This is an honest wine, made for drinking, and it’s lovely. South Africa is producing quite a few of these…
So you don’t like natural wine? I sense your pain, and I am here for you
So you don’t like natural wine? I sense your pain, and I am here for you. Here to help. I can understand how distressing it must be to see other…
The Mount Abora Saffraan Cinsault: bright and luminous
This was a delicious and smashable wine, and it didn’t cost very much. It’s a naturally made Swartland Cinsault, and on the back label it says, ‘this wine harks back…
Video: day 3 of ProWein 2017
Some highlights from the third and final day of ProWein 2017. I should add that these highlight films are not meant to be representative of the fair. Most people are…
Video: day 2 of ProWein 2017
So here’s a quick film from the second day of ProWein 2017, the global wine fair held each year in Düsseldorf, Germany. I spent quite a bit of the day…
Video: day 1 of ProWein 2017
Canadian wine journalist Treve Ring and I have been doing some filming each day at ProWein, 2017. With 58 000 visitors this year, it’s a huge wine trade fair,…
Day 1, ProWein
Day 1 at ProWein was a busy one. This wine trade fair, with 55 000 attendees, is huge. It’s daunting in scale, so you have to have quite a good…