Apologies for the lack of posts lately.
The excuse:

I’ve been on holiday
I haven’t felt like writing about wine - which is a poor excuse because I could have written about beer or food.

But sometimes you need a break in order to come back with fresh insight and motivation.
So the journey to wine nirvana continues..

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I love it when you stumble upon a great little bottle of wine when before drinking it you have little expectation of how it is going to taste.
The Wine Thief came over the other night and said in these exact words:
” here, I’ve become a wine snob lately so I bought this little shiraz from [...]

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If you’re living in Cape Town and happen to be free on Thursday night then why not head down to Camps Bay to attend the Charity Wines : Auction with Heart event at Summerville Restaurant.
The event costs R300 p.p  and includes a gourmet 4 course dinner, complimentary wine, entertainment & live auction with superb items [...]

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Crisis - if these claims can be substantiated with fact - then I find the following despicable.
Cape wine workers paid less than R60 a day
(I doubt M&G would publicize this without some basis of fact)
The study from War on Want claims that thousands of employees working on wine-producing farms in South Africa face low pay [...]

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I have a new side project on the go:
Obscura
It’s a joint venture between myself and a good friend  - we don’t use our camera’s enough and now we have a place to feature our photographs (and pretend that we’re pro’s for fifteen minutes).
Feel free to comment on and analyse the pics.

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