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The Autumn Equinox theory...

DISCLAIMER: I am no activist and I don’t belong to any kind of organisation. I pick grapes from everywhere and respect each area for its contribution to a specific wine....

Little William 2022

Hannibal of the A-TEAM loves it when a plan comes together. Personally I love it more when NOT planning, comes together. Like Little William. I like to think that Little William...

Episode 2: Open Those Wines

I’m back on South African soil and amped to tell you the rest of the story of how I ended up in the Dolomite mountains of Italy. By now you’ve...

Another dimension to BLANKBOTTLE – Episode 1

Today I’d like to invite you to partake in my most recent adventure, the one which catapulted me onto the train where I find myself typing this newsletter. I left...

3rd best..

As a rule, we don’t enter wine competitions, but every now and then our wines end up at random tasting events (entered by our agents). On 21 September, a group...

Finding Pinotage

We only have one shot per year.  For the first 13 years of my adult working life, I was all over the place; trying to figure out what I liked....