Innovators with foresight and plenty of hard work like the Mullineux have turned South Africa’s, Swartland, from a bread basket into a highly-regarded wine region. If you have been turned off by the rough edges of yesteryear’s South African wines, we urge you to dip your tongue into what Jancis Robinson calls “a whole newContinue reading “Kloof Street, Swartland”
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Wine Enthusiast’s Winemaker of the Year 2016
The lucky couple met in the Rhone Valley, and took their impressions back to Chris’ home in the Western Cape, South Africa. Working sustainable, or naturally as one can say, they intend to make old guard Cape wines, mainly from blends of Rhone or Mediterranean varietals. Their wines get a balanced feel from the 3Continue reading “Wine Enthusiast’s Winemaker of the Year 2016”
12 Everyday bottles for wine lovers
Eric Asimov, the wine writer for The New York Times, usually can get a place at any table of top wine writers in the world. But his first love was perhaps food—he wrote the annual New York Times Guide to Restaurants in New York City with Ruth Reichl and William Grimes—and he could not doContinue reading “12 Everyday bottles for wine lovers”