© Cape Times Friday 18th May 2012 Walking into KWV is like entering a factory – big iron gates, lots of health and safety signs, anonymous warehouses and people scurrying around wearing strange industrial-type clothing. Hardly the romantic Cape Dutch manor house, elegant lawns and genial, rotund cellarmaster popping... 

© Cape Times Friday 4th May 2012 I think it is fair to say that, by and large, people don’t understand wine. If you’re reading this and thinking ‘Huh? What’s she on about? I know lots about wine’ then I venture to suggest you’re in the minority, with most people buying a wine for one of three reasons... 

St Cyprian’s School PA ‘Bubbly Tasting’ with Steenberg Vineyards & Graham Beck Thursday 10 May (6pm for 6:30pm) Venue: The Voorkamer St Cyprian’s School Gorge Road Oranjezicht R150pp Hosted by Cathy Marston (wine educator, Cape Times wine columnist and wine editor of Food24.com), this is a unique opportunity... 

© Cape Times Friday 20th April 2012 Autumn is definitely on its way here in Cape Town. All the usual things – leaves falling, temperature dipping, sun getting slower and slower to raise its head in the mornings – and most people are starting to think in terms of winter- warming wines, those hearty reds with rich... 

© Cape Times Thursday 5th April 2012 What makes a good wine list? Now there’s a leading question if ever there was one. One person’s good could mean ‘cheap’, another’s might simply be the one which includes their favourite wine and yet another’s might be a 3,000-long monster list containing fine and rare... 

© Cape Times Friday 23rd March 2012 South Africans have a love-hate relationship when it comes to French folk and their wines. We want to believe that our wines are the best in the world, but we constantly feel the need to check and re-check with what the rest of the world generally considers the best in the world!...