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The South African Post Office (Sapo) has paid tribute to the South African wine industry through a set of five small international letter rate stamps and a commemorative envelope that will be issued on Friday.

Approximately 7 years ago (2016), South African wines were removed from the wine shops in Nordic countries. The reason?

Unlike traditional tourism awards or surveys, the Tourism Sentiment Index (TSI) sources data from more than 500,000 online, peer-to-peer communication

South Africa has many great inventions, from the kreepy crawly to the CAT scan - but what could be the oldest invention from South Africa?

Pick of the bunch: ‘Critics are concerned that new varieties developed to be resistant to disease, would displace less hardy, but tastier, traditional varieties.’ Photograph: David Silverman/Getty Images Nu.Vo.Té, Vin de France 2020 (£9.95, fieldandfawcett.co.uk) The world is not short of wine grape varieties. Wine Grapes, the magnificently authoritative reference book on the subject published in 2012, features some 1,368 of th...

16th February, 2021 by Lauren Eads More often than not a grape gets its name from the place in which it was discovered, or the person who identified or crossbred it. But it’s not always so straight forward. Jancis Robinson’s Wine Grapes comprehensively explains the history and origins of the world’s grape varieties. But research on exactly how grape names came to be is less explored. The et...