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KWV’s range of elite award-winning wines, The Mentors, presented its once-off, limited edition of less than 1000 litres, sequentially numbered bottles of The Mentors Carménère 2017 to a group of media, over lunch at Salsify. Winemaker Izele van Blerk is the best host, making sure everyone had…
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IT'S nothing new to take one holiday and devote the entire month to it. Christmas, Halloween...here in South Africa we have Youth Month, Women's Month (a very sad one), and now Heritage Month. Or Braai Month, if you prefer, as the day of 24th of September is known as both. Braaing is one of…
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AFTER an incredible lunch at La Colombe in Constantia (read about it here) we naturally had high expectations when we followed up with a visit to sister restaurant, La Petite Colombe in Franschhoek. We were not disappointed. La Petite Colombe has but two options: the Chef's Spring Experience…
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AS Desmond Tutu says: "Evita Bezuidenhout is not a woman; Evita Bezuidenhout is a legend." Together with Pieter-Dirk Uys, she has been part of our lives for close to 40 years and to refer to them both as national treasures is not an overstatement. PDU's new show at Theatre On The Bay, #HeTwo, …
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ACCORDING to Wikipedia, "Botrivier is a small town of approximately 10 000 people, situated in the Overberg region of the Western Cape in South Africa." According to those who have farms there - well, two of them anyway - Bot River (as we say in English) is the centre of the universe. Last week a…
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LAST week we attended the inaugural South African Craft Gin Awards, presented by Checkers LiquorShop, at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel, where we quickly learned that to taste as many as gins in as short a time as possible, to ditch the tonic (no offence towards Barker & Quin intended). It was a…
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FOUR local wine producers in Paarl have joined forces to celebrate the 10th annual Waterblommetjie Festival with a fun-filled line-up for the whole family on Saturday, September 7. This indigenous edible flower is only in season during late winter and early spring and will be showcased in a variety…
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SALSIFY At The Roundhouse is putting the sexy back into Sunday lunches from this weekend, August 25. A bunch of us were invited for a preview and this is what happened. The menu is flexible depending on the availability of ingredients and what can be foraged (some of the dish descriptions…
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A BOLD claim, to be sure. Perhaps things will happen that you will never speak of again (mainly because you can't remember them on account of the wine), in the "what happens on tour, stays on tour" vein. Or maybe you'll win a hotel in a lucky draw and relocate there to pursue a new life as an…
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NOBU at One&Only Cape Town has launched a brunch on the last Saturday of the month, and as the invitation said, "it's quite an indulgent affair" and "essentially wave after wave of Nobu food being served, accompanied by free-flowing wine". It is an accurate assessment. They call it…
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