Given a friend's penchant for handing over a case of wine from the 50th birthday boy or girl's birth year, and given that my half century is fast approaching, I'm urgently seeking a new vintage despite mine being 'one of the 20th century's finest'. Read more
On a visit to Italy some 21 years ago, we were buying our usual peasant lunch to enjoy in the vineyards and had chosen a bottle of Galestro to wash it down. 
Two things have reminded me that perhaps it's time to give an update on the splendid getting together of probably the country's best-known artist and one of its best-known winemakers. 
Rob Boyd gives an update on the wineries of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands - or, at least, those belonging to the KZN Midland 
Everyone in Johannesburg talks about the pot-holes - they are less scary than crime. 
