The other night I was sharing a bottle of wine with my good friend The Wine Thief and the conversation ventured onto the topic of ‘French First Growths’ and how many cases we will one day have in our private cellars (wine does that to the imagination - it’s always good to dream).
I then posed [...]

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I’m heading through to WineX in Cape Town this evening with a couple of friends.
The main objective for us will be to go and laugh at our good friend the Wine Thief at his Under the Influence stand (E2) - he’ll be the ugly guy in the pink suit.
As it is with most years, my [...]

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A friend is currently doing his MBA thesis and needs help gathering research data - I’ll let him explain:
I am currently a part time MBA student at UCT’s Graduate School of Business and as one of our final courses we are required to complete a research thesis.
The topic I have chosen for my report is [...]

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Well, here they are - the Platters Five Star Wines 2010  - all 41 of them ( a record by the way)!
I can’t comment too much because I have admittedly only tried about 5 of these wines. What I can say is that its encouraging to see so many small  and relatively ‘unknown’ producers on the list, the inclusion of [...]

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South African wine producers spend more than R4.2m every year on local wine-tasting competitions in the hope of being able to attach winners’ labels to their bottles so as to set them apart from the rest of the industry.
This was the finding of Kim Maxwell, who performed an in-depth investigation for the wine industry’s monthly [...]

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