I have been a bit of a fence sitter on the cork-screw cap debate, but last week something happened to make me wish a French monk called Dom Pérignon had never swapped the conical wooden plugs used to seal wine bottles in the 1600s for cork stoppers. Read more

Halfway through the informal 'formal' tasting of the six wines making up Die Ouwingerdreeks I left my seat and went over the table in the back corner on which stood, in a wooden box, a complete set of the wines we were being introduced to. Read more

Pink is not usually a colour - even when it comes to wine - that occupies much of my mind, so it surprised me that so many wine 'things' pink have been a part of my life recently. Read more

Mark Solms, 'director' of the Solms Delta estate on the eastern banks of the Dwars River more or less equidistant from Franschhoek and Stellenbosch, went to great pains to explain to the retailers and wine writers packing out the estate's Fyndraai restaurant that its latest release is not a port. Read more

It mentions the word blend, therefore it has wine connotations. Gotta love it. http://getsocialmedia.net/2010/07/will-the-vuvuzela-blend/