The Napoleonic episode shalt from now on be known as the Agony of Lourensford, where the words ΓÇ£In victory you deserve it and in defeat you need itΓÇ¥ are still ringing through the fynbos-covered valleys of this Helderberg Estate. Napoleon was, of course, referring to the noble elixir of Champagne, while my interpretation pertains to two very different wines. Different from Champagne, and from each other.

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Meat is meat and a man must eat.

PL Kopp, a WineGoggle correspondent, visits the ButcherΓÇÖs Shop in Sandton. Apparently for the last time.

There was a time when Sandton, Johannesburg, and the world was a better place. I remember those balmy Highveld evenings, strolling through The Square enjoying the lights and the cosmopolitan crowd and the fact that here, at least, was one place in this ghastly city where I could walk around after dark without getting a sharpened bicycle spoke in my neck before briskly being robbed.

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