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7 hours 24 min agoFebruary 5, 2012
17:24
Mining Moguls Descend on Cape Town
The Mining Indaba kicks off tomorrow in Cape Town and the array of private jets at CPT International makes Davos look like Dinwiddie, Germiston. With 6,500 delegates at $2000 a pop, someone is making serious loot out of this event. That Nobu at the One&Only is opening for lunch this week, confirms that hard-pressed Cape [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- Holden Manz Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of Catcher in the Rye,...
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- Geneva Juice Browsing the internet this morning, I nearly swallowed my veneers...
Categories: Wine & Beverage News, Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
09:41
Take Ninja Down
“Johannesburg is about people. Cape Town is about place” was the parting shot of Hylton Appelbaum as the 44th birthday party of the Cape’s towering winemaker Karl Lambour broke up in the early hours of this morning. So where did that giant illuminated billboard of Ninja (front man of rof rappers Die Antwoord) on Kloof [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- Is Tim cashing in? Auctions are flavour of the month in SA wine with...
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February 4, 2012
12:28
Battle of the Academicians
Do you need a license to make love? A diploma to become a dad? A certificate to call yourself a chef? Authority to become an artist? So why is the world of wine so obsessed with “qualifications?” Heck many of the Cape’s best winemakers like Arco Laarman (Glen Carlou) and Johan Kruger (Sterhuis) are self-taught [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- The Battle for Banghoek A battle is brewing in that bucolic corner of Stellenbosch...
- Project Fundi: Mission Accomplished WOSA’s brave project to train 2010 sommeliers in time for...
- Salmanazars in Shanghai Decanter, simply the best wine magazine in the world by...
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February 2, 2012
07:48
Is this all there is?
In our cups after last Friday’s Sijnn tasting at the top of the Helderberg, UK bespoke wine merchant Simon Farr reflected on the experience of drinking icon wine. “I often end up drinking wine that is valued at £1000 a bottle or even more and keeping coming back to the thought ‘is this all there [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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- A Panoply of Prodigious Pinotage A panoply is a splendid display which is what the...
- Simon Says Bibendum sounds like a good name for a child of...
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January 31, 2012
16:16
Umami Utopia
Eric Bulpitt and PJ Vardas, chefs at the Roundhouse restaurant in Camps Bay, are the ultimate exponents of umami in the Cape. Their organic vegetable patch, raw and pickled with mushroom soil and herb emulsion (below) served after a vertical tasting of Zonnebloem Cabernet Sauvignon today was inspired. For not only was it something a [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- David Higgs hits all the right notes Rust en Vrede celebrity chef David Higgs showed why he...
- Nederburg Gerontophilia Nederburg Auctioneer Anthony Barnes had to work hardest to move...
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January 30, 2012
09:46
Shrek to star @ Cape Wine 2012
Su Birch, CEO of WOSA, the wine exporters’ embattled mouthpiece, tweets this morning “Cape Wine 2012 is aiming to be the first green wine show ever. Join us from 25-27 September in Cape Town, and see just how.” Which is bizarre, as Su has unilaterally banned the wine drinking public from CW2012, thereby throwing wine [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- Cape Wine 2012 – the confusion continues WOSA attempts to defend the decision to ban the public...
- Should SA wine go Kosher? Last Tuesday’s tasting at De Grendel, led by CWG lumninary...
- Welsh wisdom: Cape Town restaurant prices “absolutely mad” Jonathan Davies is a chef and restaurant consultant from the...
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January 29, 2012
18:04
Marianne lets down her bolla
Confused terroir message from the makers of Karoo mineral water at lunch today in Stellenbosch. The tagline “origin ~ Paarl” on the front of the bottle contradicts the brand name. But then naming a mineral water after the great thirstland at the red heart of SA is a stretch, anyway. Paarl plonk of-te-not, it certainly [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- Longridge loves you longtime Two things are becoming clear on our Good Value Guru...
- The Rompel Report: Me and the Good Value Guru @ Juliet Cullinan It might sound a bit like tasting fatigue, but the...
- 100 Women – the Wines Well the 100 ladies have spoken and here are 100...
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January 28, 2012
09:44
Simon Says
Bibendum sounds like a good name for a child of US wannabe Republican president Rick Santorum. It is also the name of a leading UK wine importer that does well over R1 billion bibulous business in Blighty. Simon Farr (below) is a Bibendum bigwig and a partner in Dave Trafford’s revolutionary Sijnn Wines that makes [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- Is this all there is? In our cups after last Friday’s Sijnn tasting at the...
- Snatches in St. James Winemakers attending tomorrow evening’s unveiling of the Top 100 SA...
- Platter launches ad hominem attack on Top 100 SA Wines Three days before the “early bird” window for submission to...
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January 27, 2012
10:44
Hens are clucking
The Portuguese economy may have collapsed like a boma in Mozambique during this week’s cyclone Funso, but Lisbon’s marketing mavens are at no loss for inspiration as the billboard for Licor Beirão (below) demonstrates. Now we know where Nando’s get their advertorial inspiration from and if Distell thought they were pretty smart getting Jamie Foxx [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- Shoprite Stuff-up Another comedic gem from last night’s Port Dance at the...
- Distell plays a blinder With SA wine exports collapsing faster than the strongmen of...
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January 26, 2012
10:03
Riedels for Roederer, Partons for Pongraçz
Drinks Business magazine hit the ground running in January with the news that after centuries of serving fizz in cups based on the left breast of Queen Marie Antoinette and latterly in narrow flutes, “the Champenois are starting to serve their sparklers in white wine glasses as the larger surface areas give more aromas, complexity [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- BEWSA Typical that it takes a couple of foreign brands (Bollinger...
- Flutes or a Bunch of Fives in Bloem While the Champenois ditch fiddly flutes for their fizz in...
- Swartland Revolution Hijacked by Bollinger Bolsheviks? Alarm bells are ringing out from Hermon to Koringberg following...
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January 25, 2012
11:24
The African connection: + or -?
The image of the SA wine industry “hanging from the lips” of Dr. Johann Rupert at the Vinpro Info Day last week reminded me of Gulliver when he awoke to find himself tied down by the Lilliputians. “Die gehoor van sowat 500 wynboere het aan sy lippe gehang…” Johann told the liquid Lilliputians “Ons handelsmerk [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- Chinese nouveaux riches far too snooty to want to buy South African wine Sir David Tang, agony uncle on the Weekend Financial Times,...
- China Crisis WOSA (Wines of SA, the exporters’ mouthpiece) CEO Su Birch...
- Kanonkop Kalkulasies Kanonkop produces around 1 million bottles of wine a year...
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January 24, 2012
07:23
Should SA wine go Kosher?
Last Tuesday’s tasting at De Grendel, led by CWG lumninary Charles Hopkins, was probably the first ever in which the chemical analysis charges exceeded the price of the wines. Occasioned by the observation that UK wine hacks can identify SA reds blind on their high IBMP content, the workshop attracted most of the Platter planetarium [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
- Shrek to star @ Cape Wine 2012 Su Birch, CEO of WOSA, the wine exporters’ embattled mouthpiece,...
- Touriga Naçional at Pichon Lalande The news that the national grape of Portugal, Touriga Naçional,...
- Savvy Osbloed Necking a few buckets of Berne at &Union (as you...
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January 23, 2012
14:17
Annus Horribilis gets worse for WOSA
If last year was an annus horribilis for WOSA, 2012 is starting off even worse for Stellenbosch spin doctors with an elegant evisceration of the embattled organization by Richemont chairman Dr. Johann Rupert at the annual Vinpro Information Day on Thursday As JPR said “Ek glo WOSA doen fenomenale werk, maar mense koop nie wyn [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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12:00
Tassenberg Triumphs
It was quite a coup for the skeleton in everyone’s wine closet, Tassenberg, to be praised by self-confessed wine snob Joanne Gibson in the Sunday Times Food Weekly yesterday. But to have Diners Club Winemaker of the Year for 2010 Bartho Eksteen (below) model a Tassenberg T-shirt in his Hermanuspietersfontein hideaway was just de trop! [...] Related posts:Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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- Wine of the Day #67: Simonsig Aurum Chardonnay 2007 How much? R260; Where? Simonsig Estate, Stellenbosch 27 (0) 21...
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