A MIGHTY TROUGH
By Jamie Carr
In an Olympic year, the ideals of amateurism and the glory of taking part are bound to be given their usual trot. There will be the usual glut of wrinkled old coves talking wistfully of the days when you would turn up at the track after a ha...

PINOTAGE AND PASSION
By Neil Pendock
Last week was a good one for pinotage, the love-it-or-loathe-it cultivar. First came the news that the Steytler Vision 2001 from Kaapzicht was judged best red blend at the London International Wine & Spirit Competition. Consisting of 40% pin...

DID YOU HEAR ?

In the recently published "Events policy" of the Johannesburg Zoo, the following rule appears : "No domestic or other animals are allowed in the zoo." Can't be too interesting a zoo, then. A poster for Chien-Jung Chen's public piano rec...

ANY WHICH WAY
By David Williams
Like boxing, it doesn't matter how much your opponent dominates the match if you knock him out This was another of those matches where I wanted to go back, stop the play with one minute to go, and ask all the journalists and experts to deliv...

IT'S ALL GRAPE FUN
By Linda Stafford
If ever you've envied the lives of those who live, work and, especially, socialise in the Cape winelands, this book is designed to make you even greener. And who better than Sally Simson, who can barely stroll down a street in Stellenbosch ...

MILE-HIGH WINE
By Neil Pendock
While SA Airways experiences another bout of management turbulence, its annual wine selection process is at a calmer cruising level. This year's jury includes British wine merchant Stephen Spurrier and Egon Müller, whose Scharzhofberger Rieslings a...