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The labels of the wines of Glenelly Estate in Stellenbosch have several stories to tell about both the youthful 21-year-old estate and more than two centuries and eight generations of French winemaking.

Aside from making up some of the 400,000-plus tourists that visit Groot Constantia annually, one wouldn’t necessarily associate the Japanese with SA’s 338-year-old first wine farm.

IN THE FAMILY: The Four Cousins of Van Loveren – farmer Neil Retief, From 500 cases of wine a year to 1.4-million — it’s taken the Retief family of Robertson three generations and 40 years, along with an innovative spirit and instinctive gut feel for the market, to build Van Loveren into a wine industry powerhouse.

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”.

Opinion by Max Crus Premium Content Subscriber only Yes, its that time of year that the entire media is on holidays and automated "Year in Review" fillers fill our airwaves and printed pages…um, okay, not so much the latter lately. In between overs at the cricket, between legs at the darts, between legs at the beach, between Netflix binges (instead of cool eagle-eye slow-pan cityscapes), the highlights and the lowlights of last year are thrust upon us. Bu...