Sadie Family Vineyards: Tops South Africa Wine Charts

Tweet I visited South Africa a couple of weeks ago ready to embrace whatever the local wine scene served up.  Curious and relatively uniformed,  I tasted both good and marginal wines.  Out of conversations with local producers and trade, I noted definite instances of commitment to farming and wine making styles geared to produce honest, [...]

Platter’s: Showcase and Reliable Guide for South African Wine

Tweet Sheltered from cooling afternoon rains by a thatched roof structure on the Zimbabwe side of its border with Zambia, I started applying context to a few days of exclusively South African wines. I, like lots of American wine drinkers, don’t pay a lot of attention to the category.  The US does not even rank [...]