Category: South Africa
South Africa
Nate Valleij Stellenbosch Cinsault 2021 It’s a pretty, pleasing little number
South Africa
Le Riche Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 Is making me conflicted.
South Africa
Oupa Willem 2020 from Ian Naude is a beguiling beauty.
South Africa
2019 Oude Nektar is brilliant, that is enough reason to love it.
South Africa
This Werfdans old vines Cinsault 2017 is sheer beauty.
South Africa
A new wine from the brilliant Minimalist Wines – hooray! Sam Lambson’s ‘winemaking as therapy’-Stars in the Dark has blown my mind every time I have tried it; a …
General drinking
This post is the 1,600th published on the excellent, exquisite Elitistreview, and to celebrate Opus 1,600 I am going to indulge in a little perversion of mine. I only …
Buying recommendations
Two years ago I reviewed the previous vintage of Ian Naudé’s Oupa Willem Heritage Blend; I loved it! The 2019 has just arrived in the UK and I have …
Buying recommendations
Ian Naudé is a genius. He would deny this, claiming all the beautifully sculpted, supremely elegant wines he makes are just him taking a liquid photograph of his old …
Buying recommendations
I ended up drinking the South African Bordeaux-blend Rabelais 2017 from Thelema Mountain Vineyards a few times – I reported on the first of these occasions with Rabelais 2017. …