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Eight hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Italians started making wine – actually the Greeks started making wine when they colonized Sicily so, strictly speaking, it was the Greeks (who didn’t introduce …

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Normally I don’t visit co-ops simply because large scale production of anything that I have to put in my mouth just doesn’t turn me on – coupled with that I had never really taken …

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In Afrikaans there’s a saying: “Die een se dood is die ander se brood” and, literally translated, it means that the death of one man becomes the bread of the other. The European wars …

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One of the most luxurious desserts on earth are truffles with really good wine and there isn’t much that can improve on that unless you add wine to the truffle mixture and pair that with …

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In the 1990′s South Africans manufactured Port but were suddenly forbidden to call it Port and they scrambled a bit until they hit on a name that made everybody happy - Port became known as fortified …

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On the 13th of April 1531 Eske Bille, the Lord of Bergenshus Castle in Denmark wrote to Olav Engelbrektsson, the last Archbishop of Norway to tell him that a parcel he was sending to him …

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All countries in the northern hemisphere drink mulled wine and all of them have their own recipes and methods of making it. Glogg is, traditionally, drunk in Danish homes at Christmas because it’s extremely cold …

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Today is a very special day in South Africa – a day of acceptance, of understanding and of forgiveness – a day that all the cultural groups of a young democracy reconcile and shake hands.  …

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There simply is no better Panettone than the Poli and because Giulio Ferrari, Riserva del Fondatore is the probably the best spumante in Italy we’ll suggest you buy a bottle if you’ve managed to locate this …

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We discussed Sangria a while back but here’s a simple festive season idea featuring the wines from La Rioja – the Sangria is really good but potent.  It’s hot in summer in La Rioja but the …