Travel
Home Travel
Top six Cape Town wine bars
1. Chalk & Cork
Two story wine bar with courtyard providing a small but carefully assembled winelist and tapas.
Address: 51 Kloof St, Gardens, Cape Town
Phone:...
David Bristow: In praise of boxed wine
I spent an inordinate portion of my youth messing about on mountains. We worked out by trial and error what foods were the lightest...
David Bristow: Umngazi – jewel of the Wild Coast
I’ve been around the block a few times, in just about every sense of the phrase. So much so that some people say my...
David Bristow: A Gambler’s Life – Bill Winshaw
At a tasting some years ago, a wine luminary said to a group of avid admirers: “Wine farming is such a gamble it’s a...
David Bristow: In search of winter fortification
This is the time when snow lies scattered across the high ground of South Africa – like clothes strewn across the floor of a...
David Bristow: Hunting the Rare Limpopo Cabernet
If you had a dream of creating a lifestyle combining African wildlife with a bit of garagiste winemaking… sorry but that African Ark has...
David Bristow: Vergelegen – possibly SA’s greatest wine property
The Van der Stel family was among the fabulously rich and well connected of Amsterdam throughout the 17th century, dominating the silk trade there....
David Bristow: Time in the Cederberg – then and now
In the early 1980s I was a mad-keen mountaineer and one winter saw me huddled in a tent below the Tafelberg with snow falling....