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Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 2 March 2016
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As any interested reader will know by now, I’m a big fan of South African whites, not least because they are priced so keenly. I’m also a big fan of tasting blind (see this thread on our forum, for instance), so I jumped at the chance to taste a range of South Africa white blends blind under the auspices of the estimable World of Fine Wine. 

Among the 31 wines we tasted there were many seriously interesting wines – many of them blends that I don’t think you would find anywhere else in the world. Take Adi Badenhorst’s blended...