Category: Grape Varieties
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Steen, Glorious Steen: The Workhorse That Became a Thoroughbred
It was once the grape nobody talked about — bulk wine, brandy fuel, and boxes with little silver taps. But those forgotten old vines kept growing, quietly and stubbornly, until a handful of maverick winemakers looked at them properly and changed everything. Koos, Octavius and Isabella uncork South Africa’s greatest comeback story — and discover…
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Pinotage: South Africa’s Most Argued-About Grape
Pinotage: South Africa’s most argued-about grape or how a professor’s experiment became a national talking point.
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Pinot Noir — The Heartbreak Grape with a Sense of Drama
There are few grapes that inspire such devotion, despair, poetry, bankruptcy, ecstasy, and lifelong obsession as Pinot Noir. For centuries, it has been whispered about like a rare treasure—temperamental, thin-skinned, prone to melodrama, yet capable of producing some of the most hauntingly beautiful wines known to humankind.
Uncorked and Curious 