Announcing the launch of the OVR Seal, a way for producers, retailers, and importers to label wines made from registered old vineyards.

The second of a two part series on why I think South Africa is the most compelling wine region on the planet right now. More than 200 wines reviewed....

For many months last year, a camera trap beside a remote river crossing in Kenya’s Maasai Mara quietly watched the forest...

A building is part of the environment. How it is built may affect the environment. In their book, Rooted in Change, the stories behind sustainable wine, Jane Masters MW and Andrew Neather, take a d…

Chardonnay and Elgin; pinot noir and Hemel-en-Aarde; cabernet sauvignon and Stellenbosch. Association between a specific variety and these regions has developed, in part, due to suitable conditions…

Information about the Old Vine Photography Competition now underway. Photographers are encouraged to submit their work.

A press release announcing that the Old Vine Registry has reached the milestone of 10,000 vineyards registered.

Wine isn’t intimidating – but prices can be. There’s quite a lot of discussion about the role of education in the wine world at the moment. Wine education

Imagine being sandwiched between 2015 and 2017, both highly-regarded vintages in the Cape; that was the fate of 2016. It wasn’t that year’s only fate. The harvest followed a winter of insufficient …

40 is a number; 1986 to 2025 is a unique era in South African wine, one marking a transition from revolution to evolution, which I’ve been privileged to share. Whether it was an alignment of the st…

On 8 November 2025, the winners of the 2025 Golden Vines Awards were announced in a ceremony at the Faena Forum in Miami. Winners included Weingut Egon...

Some of my most enjoyable wine moments haven’t been about the wine at all.

The South African wine industry was nothing if not arcane in the 1970s; to some degree it still is, but nowhere near that impenetrable era. In her book, Red Tape, Bridgid Hamilton Russell tells the…