What is it about wine that we love? What is it that makes us meticulous in the cellars? What is it that captivates our minds and has us watching videos about obscure places and buying copious wine books on the off chance they might say something new? As wine enthusiasts we are of a rare […]

Have you ever gone wine tasting and overheard the dreaded, “How much Sulphur is in this wine?” or “I am allergic to Sulphur”? Tasting room stewards often fear these remarks, while customers often make them under the presumption that they are allergic to Sulphur Dioxide. I’ve often wondered how [...]

Written by Geena Whiting. 221B Baker Street, sitting in my armchair reading the newspaper with a Sherlock Holmes frame of mind, I cannot help but notice the front page title screaming at me: VEGAN WINE: THE NEXT BIG THING?? The detective in me is intrigued, surely all wine is vegan? Or wait, is [...]

The post-harvest blues have slowly started to sink in as the familiar snip-snip-snip of pruning shears drifts through the vineyard. While the viticulturists are hard at work, the fourth year cellar interns have returned to the comforts of campus life, or so we thought. Back at our old stomping [...]

By winemaking student Geena Whiting. I grew up in KwaZulu Natal, on a small holding that was a hodgepodge of different agricultural sectors. We had chickens that ran around and horses and cows that roamed. Fields of lavender and tea tree that left the air smelling sweet and fresh. A veggie [...]