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Nov 25 2011

No Cult Wine in the Making – Keets First Verse is Already Here

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Chris Keet (photograph plagiarised from Neil Pendock's blog.)

Seeing as wine commentary is – like all commentary – personal and subjective, one is allowed the confident luxury of making big statements. Make too many of them, and their effect is obviously diluted. So before coming up with a massive missive on a space such as this read by about 12 wine enthusiasts, three of my closest friends as well as my brainy dachshund Maximillian, careful consideration is required. Continue Reading »

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Jun 09 2011

Young Pinotage Wines Show Grace Under Pressure

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The prospect of tasting 14 Pinotage wines barely out of their nappies is about as daunting as engaging in a bit of face-sucking with a komodo dragon. At the best of times, three-month-old red wines are a tad tough on the mouth of any human not involved with the profession of tasting barrel samples before the day’s All Bran. And in its youth Pinotage can be an especially trying customer due to its penchant for infantile volatility and the wine’s love of clinging onto any trace of wood like baby-shit to a Pep Stores blanket.
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