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Dinner on Saturday night at Somerset West winery Waterkloof to celebrate our third wedding anniversary. Ambiance at this ultra-modern restaurant with panoramic views: 10/10, food:...
Disappointed by the Chenin Blanc-based Bellingham Fair Maiden 2008 recently (see here) and hoping to restore my faith in what producer-wholesaler DGB was capable of...
This wine is an exotic blend of Chenin Blanc, Roussane, Verdelho, Grenache Blanc, Chardonnay and Viognier, and given high ratings on release back in 2009,...
Or the one that caused all the trouble. After dinner on Tuesday night showcasing the best of Elim, Strandveld winemaker and host Conrad Vlok produced...
Do extreme loctions make for extremely good wines? I spent Tuesday and Wednesday exploring Elim, the windswept ward in the Cape Agulhas district that boasts...
A once-off social tasting with friends at the end of last year seems to be turning into a regular wine club, working title “The Bald...
Recently I reviewed the Syrah 2008 from Swartland property Lammershoek on this blog noting that I was “a little underwhelmed” by it on account of...
Guardian Peak Desert Lion 2004 is something of a collector’s item, though I didn’t realize it at the time of drinking. Served at lunch on...
One of my late dad’s stock lines was “Fornication [for an occasion] like this, we need Champagne”. We weren’t celebrating anything in particular yesterday, but...
Last night songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Imogen Heap at the Paul Cluver Estate amphitheatre in Elgin. Heap’s a sort of UK-born Alanis Morissette or PJ Harvey-lite,...
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