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MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Cluver sets ball rolling with new releases in Gauteng
SPRING brings a flood of new wines to market. It’s almost as if the producers spend winter hibernating and as the weather warms they realise that their cellars are bulging under the burden of the latest vintage. Then follows a desperate and headlong hurtle to Gauteng to show their latest treasures in the largest market in the world for Cape wine.When the warm weather coincides with the launch of David Hicks’s long-awaited return to the Joburg culinary scene (Marble in Rosebank) the week becomes a series of déjà vu moments.Not all the new releases are necessarily from 2016: sauvignon blancs (inevitably) are the vanguard, but since the pipeline for longer maturing wines is linked to the same process, (but with a year or two of extra time required), it’s common enough to see the best of the 2015 barrel-aged whites making their first appearance, as well as the 2014 reds.Paul Cluver opened the batting, and using Marble as the bait, achieved a pretty healthy Monday turnout of wine merchan...
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