Pic: Alvi’s Drift Wine shouldn’t be about a price point. Part marketing hype, part production expense, part controlled scarcity, pricing means that there are plenty of less-than-stellar wines out there that cost the earth but deliver as much as a wine that costs a two-thirds less. Similarly, some wines are massively expensive because they deliver. Similarly, your choice of wine […]
South Africa makes plenty of great wines, which deserve to stand alongside the ‘finest’ in the world. For whatever reason – perception, the relatively low cost driven by the weakness of the Rand against major currencies or something more ethereal – our wines often find themselves firmly in the ‘value’ category, rather than as serious international contenders alongside wines from […]
Former Test Kitchen sommelier Tinashe Nyamudoka is on a mission to make wines that everyone can connect with. Multi-awarded sommelier Tinashe Nyamudoka used the COVID-19 pandemic to make a fresh start, departing his role as Head Sommelier at The Test Kitchen and making the move to Johannesburg to focus on his own wine label, Kumusha. His formidable career in the […]
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