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Wine is much more than an alcoholic beverage – it’s a cultural reliquary, a liquid time machine that can instantly transport the drinker back to summers long lost quicker than Proust’s madeleine. People and stories make wine special and the South African Winelands provide some of the most beautiful locations in which they play out.

The idea for this slim volume was spawned at the 2007 Cape Town Book Fair when Tafelberg publishers commissioned this book. I was part of a panel discussion on the crisis (or otherwise) in South African wine chaired by former Sunday Times columnist David Bullard.

Some of the text has appeared before in edited form – in the Sunday Times, Financial Mail, WINE, Winescape, Good Taste, www.winenews.co.za, in my blog, blogs.thetimes.co.za/pendock – and some I wrote especially for this book at the Ouro Minas Palace Hotel in Belo Horizonte between September and November 2007.

This is the result: the inside story on South African wine.