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A tale of two tablecloths ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. December 16, 2013. A tale of two tablecloths. Bizerca restaurant in Heritage Square, Cape Town has something of a reputation. It’s not very expensive dining, but pricey enough that I really think they could do something better than a white paper overlay on their nice white linen tablecoths. I had lunch there a week or so back with Angela Lloyd and Melvyn Minnaar. Click to print (Opens in new window).

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Sadie new releases ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. August 8, 2015. Refined, almost delicate, subtly perfumed. Seems to me a tauter yet more expressive expression of Grenache than before, with a stoney core to the fruit. Perhaps it’s the latter element that gives a sense of place in fact, Rosa Kruger says she thinks it really expresses Piekenierskloof like no other wine. Stoney. Sense of place. Structure. And a fresh citrus tang on the palate. Softer a...

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My book ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Wines of the New South Africa: Tradition and Revolution. Was published in mid -2013 by University of California Press. I have privately brought in some copies of the book which I am able to sell at a decent discount to the prevailing rate. Click here. SO WHAT’S IN THE BOOK AND IS IT ANY GOOD? I decided that an overview book was needed, and that’s what I delivered. Wine and the New South Africa. 8220;His i...

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You say solera, I say Olerasay ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. July 30, 2015. You say solera, I say Olerasay. Andrea and Chris Mullineux released a new wine on Wednesday, at a small, casual function at Jason bakery in Cape Town’s interesting Bree Street. The wine and its context were no less interesting. Long life, Mullineux! As to why it’s not announced as part of Mullineux Family Wines like (as far as I know) the other wines still are, I didn’t dare ask, as I alway...

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Passing it on in the family ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. July 14, 2015. Passing it on in the family. The four-generation winemaker line-up of van Veldens at Overgaauw. But it could also imply even with stirrings and changes by the rising generation the early sedimentation of a new tradition, and that’s why what we’re starting to see in this regard seems to me positive; even marvellous. Christo and Etienne le Riche at their (newish) cellar in Stellenbosch. It’ll...

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One Cape wine industry or two? ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. July 23, 2015. One Cape wine industry or two? An interesting article by Edo Heyns in the latest edition of. Edo doesn’t make the distinction and in his editorial (available here). So, nothing new in the grapefarmers’ belief that high yields rather than high quality is the way to go. Let’s not forget that the Mullineux are also planting, with a very different outcome in mind; that there are a numerous tiny...

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Meaningful and/or lucrative scoring ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. August 5, 2015. Meaningful and/or lucrative scoring. While the equally eminent, but I suspect much richer, Tim Atkin, one of the implicitly and actually accused, wrote a response here. Partly, it seems, because MF tends not to be involved with the cutting edge wines that Wine Cellar (to its great credit) pushes; but also partly because Fridjhon’s scores are on a scale that is too low. But I find I’ve side...

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About Tim James ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Writing about wine started off as a modest, occasional hobby after Tim won Wine. Tim is one of the few South African writers with an international name and reputation, having, for example, reported on South African wine (with Cathy van Zyl) in the now sadly defunct International Wine Report. And he still acts as local consultant for The World Atlas of Wine. Tim’s own book,. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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2 ¶ Grape

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Tim James's thoughts about South Africa's wines. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. July 24, 2016. Bringing women and wine into disrepute? A wine competition which doesn’t announce its results? Intuitively, it doesn’t make much sense. Like having the Olympics behind closed doors, and leaving it up to the winners (or losers) to make any public announcement they might want to make after the race is won. Otherwise, no-one knows. A woman and a wine – from the SAWWA website. Nothing about the...