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6 hours 50 min agoSeptember 2, 2010
13:51
Tasting Ernst Gouws&Co Chenin Blanc
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Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
September 1, 2010
20:58
Wine, Water and Propaganda
Tweet Plans to legalise the addition of water to the winemaking process in South Africa are going ahead unabated, although those attempting to push this legislation through must have been pretty unnerved by what a few top winemakers had to say in Tuesday’s edition of Die Burger newspaper. De Wet Viljoen from Neethlingshof and Nitida’s Bernard [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
August 30, 2010
21:21
Smell of Shiraz in the Morning
Tweet La Motte kicked off its ambitions to become the country’s premier wine destination with an international Shiraz showcase, and I was there. Like most of the collected group of wine makers, marketers, hacks and VIP’s must have felt, it was a massive privilege to be part of this blue chip event, but I must admit, [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
August 28, 2010
13:50
Rust en Vrede Rules the Roost
Tweet The Mount Nelson Hotel, and I am there. Couple of Black Jack draughts in the Planet Bar to cleanse the palate before heading to the restaurant for Wine and Dine with Rust en Vrede, one of my top three South African wine estates. A civilised evening on all counts. The only thing more civilised would be [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
August 22, 2010
21:08
Wine for the Heart
Tweet THE phone goes off on a blustery Saturday morning, and seeing the caller identification reads “Jaco”, I answer. Nursing a hang-over post the Intervarsity Wine Competition, I am in no mood to talk to in-laws, kids or boring friends who want to discuss the coming rugby test between the Boks and All Blacks in Soweto. [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
August 21, 2010
10:18
SA Wine Industry Embraces the Tap
Tweet CRAFTIER than a seasoned contingent of parliamentarians, the South African wine industry authorities are trying to sneak through a recommendation allowing the addition of water to pre-fermented wine. Reasons include the usual: “But they do it in America!” as well as a bit of Wine for Dummies 101 by stating, ag Jeez man, but we [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
August 15, 2010
08:53
Americans in on the Pinotage Act
Tweet SELLING Pinotage at $45 a bottle? Yes, but it is not a South African Pinotage. Loma Prieta Winery, overlooking Monterey Bay and the Santa Cruz coastline in California, first released a Pinotage in 2008. It has won three gold medals in “prestigious wine competitions”, reports winebusiness.com, but does not name the competitions. (Sounds like a South [...]
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August 11, 2010
20:35
Restaurant Review: Boere Barok at Simonsig
Tweet CUVÉE RESTAURANT, Simonsig Estate, Stellenbosch. The Indian Summer conditions residents of the Western Cape are currently experiencing are conducive to al fresco wineland dining. So it was that I recently found myself at Simonsig, one of my favourite wine estates, settled on the porch of its Cuvée Restaurant. Not a breath of wind. Views lasted forever, [...]
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August 10, 2010
23:10
It’s All About Creation
Tweet Image ain’t everything, but it sure helps. The stratospheric success of Hemel-en-Aarde’s relative newcomer Creation would not have happened quite so suddenly if the excellent quality of what is being produced in the vineyards were being poured and sold by a bunch of bleached poppies listening to Heuwels Fantasties while trying to ascertain what the [...]
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August 5, 2010
17:00
Dead Dogs and Sauvignon Blanc
Tweet The prospect of hearing a miniature wire-haired Dachshund being crushed beneath my car tyres is daunting. That’s why I always attempt to enter the hallowed grounds of De Grendel Wine Estate with attentive trepidation. A little furry creature tends to roam the expansive grounds and one should be careful not to run the thing down, [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
August 3, 2010
22:15
Blow for Gold
South Africa might have put on a successful World Cup, but when it comes to cocking-up wine competitions, we are in a real class of our own. 2010 has already seen its set of clangers, and the season has still to get into full-swing. First-up was the Old Mutual Trophy boobie with a Zonnebloem wine being [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
22:15
Blow for Gold
Tweet South Africa might have put on a successful World Cup, but when it comes to cocking-up wine competitions, we are in a real class of our own. 2010 has already seen its set of clangers, and the season has still to get into full-swing. First-up was the Old Mutual Trophy boobie with a Zonnebloem wine being [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
August 2, 2010
18:49
August 1, 2010
22:02
Costing The Jem
Tweet If good wine is, as Ernest Hemingway said, the most civilised thing on earth, then Waterford is a wine estate for whom the bell tolls. One of those clanging Catholic bells hammering out a celebratory christening or festivity in a summery European village, the air smelling of coffee, sawdust and lavender. Look, I’ll go to Waterford [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 31, 2010
09:14
White and Proud
Tweet Like many folk with a similarly sensitive constitution, I tend to be particular about the Sauvignon Blanc I select to chuck down the old bung-hole. Some of the stuff is so acidic that drinking it feels like having a rusty steel vuvuzela shoved down your throat by a Zimbabwean refugee. The addition of Semillon to cut [...]
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July 28, 2010
07:42
Don’t Touch My……
Tweet Okay, I’ll let egg head Afrikaans singer Nataniël touch my leg. My arm. Heck, he can even touch my studio. But Bru, don’t you touch my sosatie. ShopriteCheckers, the better-and-better store, has been using the Egg Head for some time to promote their edibles. And usually it was easy to avoid Nataniël’s lyrical waxings on, say, a [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 23, 2010
20:21
Sweating in Burgundy – and loving it!
That man Riaan Smit reports on his last few days’ work in Burgundy and offers some insight into wine industry economics. I have been asked whether it is worth the effort – and cost – to work in France as a stagiaire (trainee). I am on my way back home after spending five weeks of hard, hands-on, vineyard [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 22, 2010
20:08
Wine, Woman and PR Bull Shit
Already confused by the Landbouweekblad Woman Winemaker of the Year Competition’s decision to eschew the exposure of the media to the potential buxom curves and low-slung blouses of the finalists? Well a weird media release of hypnotic non-sense has hit the shores. According to the media release, the winning Woman Winemaker works with other people. That’s right, after the [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
07:41
A Moment of Provenance
Judging a Shiraz category – especially of the New World’s wines – must be a somewhat thunderous onslaught on the senses. High tannins, volcanic alcohols and enough wood to use in a Viagra advertisement are not favourable to the myriad senses wine judges need to employ. This year’s Global Trader Wine Magazine Shiraz Challenge placed 184 [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
July 20, 2010
16:49
Woman Wine Competition Trounces Male Rights
The famous film reviewer Joe Bob Briggs had a golden rule regarding actresses. “Never judge actresses by their acting talents, but by the size of their hooters.” Rubbish – what about calves, thighs and that cute little piece of neck-skin rising up from the cleavage? If you take the trouble of having a contest for woman only, [...]
Categories: Wine Blogs from South Africa, Wine Blogs in English
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