Burton, Neel. The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting. 2nd ed. Acheron Press, 2016.
The chapter follows Cape settlement, early vineyards, Constantia, institutional regulation, apartheid-era isolation and later international exchange. Coastal, Cape South Coast, Breede River, Klein Karoo, Olifants/Cederberg and Northern Cape regions have distinct climates and products. Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet, Shiraz, Pinotage and fortified wines are treated separately.
Neel Burton, The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, 2nd ed. (Acheron Press, 2016), supplied PDF positions 299–309.
Neel Burton, The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, 2nd ed. (Acheron Press, 2016), supplied PDF positions 299–309.
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Burton, Concise Guide, PDF 299–309.
South African history and geography provide comparative context
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Neel Burton, The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, 2nd ed. (Acheron Press, 2016), supplied PDF positions 299–309.
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Burton, Neel. The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting. 2nd ed. Acheron Press, 2016.
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The chapter follows Cape settlement, early vineyards, Constantia, institutional regulation, apartheid-era isolation and later international exchange. Coastal, Cape South Coast, Breede River, Klein Karoo, Olifants/Cederberg and Northern Cape regions have distinct climates and products. Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet, Shiraz, Pinotage and fortified wines are treated separately.
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Napoleon's deathbed-wine account is explicitly lore. Early dates and phylloxera timing require historical verification. PDF309's Ruby Cabernet parentage statement is held as unverified, not copied into a taxonomy. Cape Blend is described as contested terminology, not one stable formula; statistics and quality comparisons are dated or subjective.
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