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Scratching your head for the perfect gift for your favourite wine lover?

Beer is a perfect match for food too, not only wine, despite what sommeliers might tell us. Beef and Guinness pie. Beer with a curry. A pint of Portuguese ale with a bowl of salty pickled lupini beans. On International Beer Day, let’s get into the culture of beer and food.

The Le Riche Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 has been awarded a prestigious “Best in Show” (97 points), the ultimate accolade attributed to the 50 best wines at the esteemed Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) in London, reaffirming the Raithby-based L

The fatal shooting incident that claimed the life of celebrated rapper Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes also claimed the life of AKA's lifelong friend and celebrity author Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane.

A South African wine estate's celebration of earning Platter's prestigious five-star rating was cut short by cable thieves.

Trains and boats and planes carry us from the mundane into the extraordinary, from the here to the anything’s-possible. Maybe it is. For a new generation, we could all help to make it come true.

Whatever happened to Stellenzicht?Back in 1997, John Platter wrote that Stellenzicht Syrah “might become the priciest, most prized modern Cape wine”, and called it “one of SA’s newest and most convincing cult wines”.

When you are invited to a Delaire Graff wine tasting on Zoom, your first thought might be “how the heck do you hold a virtual version of such a sensory event?” After all, you need to inhale the bouquet, hold the glass up to the light to see the “beaded bubbles winking at the brim” and let the flavours wash over your taste buds.

When you are invited to a wine tasting on Zoom, your first thought might be, “How the heck do you hold a virtual version of such a sensory event?” After all, you need to inhale the bouquet, hold the glass up to the light to see the “beaded bubbles winking at the brim”, and let the flavours wash over your tastebuds.