By Rose Murray Brown MW   Published in The Scotsman 14 March 2026 When Cape winemaker Sam Lambson decided to set up his own winery last year, he did something very unusual. Not only did he locate it in the city as an urban winery, based in an old textile and printing warehouse in Cape Town’s attractive Gardens district, but

By Rose Murray Brown MW    Published in The Scotsman 28 February 2026 One and a half hour’s drive from the nearest vineyard, Sijnn wine estate in the tiny wine ward of Malgas in Overberg is the most remote in the Western Cape.  Visiting is a challenge for the best driver on seemingly never-ending, bumpy dust tracks, but it

By Rose Murray Brown MW   Published in The Scotsman 21 Feb 2026   When I visited Rustenberg wine estate near Stellenbosch in South Africa last month, my arrival had been preceded by 100 Indian runner ducklings which were just settling into their new home padding around on this historic old Cape farm.   “We recently applied for a grant to