South Africa


Breaking news! In an effort to maintain their share of the world wine market, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Portugal have decided that they will be collaborating in the future to present a combined front against the onslaught of New World wines… OK, OK, it could never happen. Even the […]

New World Wine Alliance


Having produced lists of top Australian and New Zealand wines for a number of years, wine writer and consultant Matthew Jukes has recently turned his attention to South Africa. As with any such list, I’m in favour of several of the inclusions in Jukesy’s 50 Top Cape Wines (it’s here) […]

Matthew Jukes’s Top 50 Cape Wines


Bit of a hoo-haa brewing about South African red wines, with Jancis Robinson and Tim Atkin both saying they lag behind the whites, and unsurprisingly many – from the Cape, but also from elsewhere – disagreeing. Yes, there are some great SA reds but there are also some extremely clumsy […]

Cape of Good Hope – as long as it’s white