My recurring dream in this time of coronavirus has seen me by the edge of the Little Karoo desert in South Africa (pictured); on a plateau between the Outeniqua Mountains to the north and the Indian Ocean to the south, driving past empty farmhouses whose people had decamped, leaving fronts boarded up, gates locked. In […]
SOME beautiful wine is made in Waterford but it’s not called Déise Delight or Vin de Dungarvan. The Waterford in question is in South Africa – the Waterford Estate in Stellenbosch, 70kms east of Cape Town. That’s where Jeremy Ord and Kevin Arnold have established a remarkable vineyard. European vineyards mostly grow a single variety […]