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Is the west coast the best coast? Getting fired up with Swartland’s revolutionaries, next stop Olifants River?

Posted Friday 12th August 2011

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Is the west coast the best coast?  Getting fired up with Swartland’s revolutionaries, next stop Olifants River?

I’ll be heading out to South Africa in November.  Top of my list of things to do – indeed things that I’ll be doing – are the Swartland Revolution and International Chenin Blanc symposium.  Chenin is a common thread.  Old vine Chenin from the Paardeberg is the much sought after backbone of Swartland’s revolutionary white [...]

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A pair of Secateurs

Posted Monday 1st March 2010

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Ex-Rustenberg man Adi Badenhorst’s Paardeberg Rhone blends, white and red, were one of my finds of the 2008 Cape Fair (see here).  A A Badenhorst Family Red 2006 received plenty of plaudits when I showed it at my “Cape Rhone blends with a twist tasting” last summer (reported here).  The only grievance?  That it wasn’t [...]

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