Michael Fridjhon

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MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Californian wine still holds its own 50 years after Paris showdown

6 days ago | wantedonline.co.za | Michael Fridjhon |Daniel Salgado

Vineyard in Napa Valley, California, the US The current geopolitical environment hardly appears to favour new trade initiatives between the US and the rest of the world. Almost every day there’s news of the announcement by the White House of some new tariff, followed by a comparable retaliatory impost. Markets are closing at an alarming rate, many between long-established trading partners, and almost all of them meaningful in terms of sales volumes.
MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Californian wine still holds its own 50 years after Paris showdown

1 week ago | businesslive.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

It is tempting to do little other than amble around the fishing settlement, enjoying the benches, cliffs and beaches
MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Californian wine still holds it own 50 years after Paris showdown

1 week ago | businesslive.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

Harvard rejects anti-diversity policy as lawless, unconstitutional; Columbia says some academic freedoms are ‘not subject to negotiation’
Michael Fridjhon: Swartland’s visionaries reunite to celebrate a movement that changed SA wine

1 week ago | winemag.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

There’s no doubt that wine regions define their own personalities – driven by the landscape and the people who are attracted to making wine there. The Medoc was shaped by the aristocracy of Bordeaux who built their grand chateaux and planted vines as part of their self-defining vision. When it turned out that the wines were rather good (and appealed to the English market which could be serviced from the port of Bordeaux) the scene had already been set.
MICHAEL FRIDJHON | Vote against Trump’s tariffs with your wine choices

1 week ago | timeslive.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

15 April 2025 - 11:30 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. The Cape wine industry will have to be careful not to neglect the local market. File photo. The political and economic turmoil of the past week will have repercussions everywhere.
MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Vote against Trump’s tariffs with your wine choices

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

The political and economic turmoil of the past week will have repercussions everywhere. It’s easy to assume that Trump’s tariff wars will have little effect on the price of goods in SA or that, if you are not an exporter to the US, it will be life as normal for the foreseeable future.
MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Wine sales and hype are a perfect package deal

2 weeks ago | wantedonline.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

It’s impossible to separate the sale of fine wine from the art of puffery. Much of what drives the high-end wine market is the brand story. While this is more evident in the New World wine trade, where there is a faster and more visible churn at the apex of the pyramid, it’s increasingly evident in European wine regions.
MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Wine sales and hype are a perfect package deal

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

It’s impossible to separate the sale of fine wine from the art of puffery. Much of what drives the high-end wine market is the brand story. While this is more evident in the New World wine trade, where there is a faster and more visible churn at the apex of the pyramid, it’s increasingly evident in European wine regions.
MICHAEL FRIDJHON: The art of ageing well

3 weeks ago | wantedonline.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

Few wine enthusiasts ever get to drink fully mature wines. This is partly because most wines produced in the 21st century were never intended to age. They were made with ready drinkability in mind. As ever more consumers opt for youthful, juicy reds with tannins made precociously soft by global warming (and cellar strategies like micro-oxygenation), the availability of the more classically styled wines declines even further.
MICHAEL FRIDJHON: The art of ageing well

4 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Michael Fridjhon

Few wine enthusiasts ever get to drink fully mature wines. This is partly because most wines produced in the 21st century were never intended to age. They were made with ready drinkability in mind. As ever more consumers opt for youthful, juicy reds with tannins made precociously soft by global warming (and cellar strategies like micro-oxygenation), the availability of the more classically styled wines declines even further.

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