Serious discussion about the crisis in SA’s restaurants & winelands, a ZA Confidential’s Zoomer, well worth watching…
ZA Confidential's Zoomer on You Tube, well worth watching...
Rickety Bridge The Printers’ Devil Belphegor 2017, a ZA Confidential Podcast…
Rickety Bridge The Printers’ Devil Belphegor 2017, a ZA Confidential Podcast…
Bonnievale Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, a ZA Confidential podcast…
Bonnievale Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, a fine example of this Bordeaux grape. Look for its sister wine, a Chardonnay...
Ben Wren’s Wine in a Can, a ZA Confidential podcast…
Ben Wren's Wine in a Can, pull the ring and drink the thing, Sauvignon Blanc & a Red Blend, the wines are so good and so convenient...
Liefmans Fruitesse & Fraser Crighton’s Fraser’s Folly Brewers Reserve, a ZA Confidential podcast…
Liefmans Fruitesse & Fraser’s Folly Brewers Reserve, each unique the Liefmans delicate and gluggable and the Frasers fine with food...
Overgaauw Merlot 2017, a tasting for a ZA Confidential Podcast…
Overgaauw Merlot 2017, this historic Stellenbosch Estate was the first, in the early 1980s, to bottle an Estate Merlot...
De Grendel Viognier 2019, a ZA Confidential podcast…
De Grendel Viognier 2019, a delicious white from Charles Hopkins, if you have not tried a Viognier before, this is the one to go for...
Painted Wolf Roussanne 2018, a ZA Confidential Podcast…
Painted Wolf Roussanne 2018, part of Jeremy Borg's The Pack range of wines, sales of which assist conservation of the African Wild Dog...
The Spice Route Obscura White 2019, a ZA Confidential podcast…
The Spice Route Obscura White 2019, is one of a trio of wines made in the centuries old Georgian tradition, using Qvevris...
Simonsig The Grapesmith Die Kluisenaar 2016, a ZA Confidential podcast….
Tasting the Simonsig The Grapesmith Die Kluisenaar 2016 with the ZA Confidential team of tasters, and talking about visiting the Cape Winelands...
Robertson’s Thunderchild 2016, a ZA Confidential podcast…
Thunderchild 2016, from a 5 hectare vineyard in the garden of Die Herberg in Robertson, cared for and wine made by a group of Robertson Winemakers...
De Wetshof Riesling 2017, a ZA Confidential Podcast…
De Wetshof Riesling 2017, a fine example from Robertson. A wine grape which Jancis Robinson describes as making the greatest wine in the world...
Loxtonia Cider, delicious Crispy Apple Cider from Ceres – a ZA Confidential podcast…
Loxtonia Cider, made from fresh Ceres Apples, has a wide range, here we taste the Crispy Apple...
Sijnn Red 2015, a red blend from Malgas, a ZA Confidential podcast…
Sijnn Red 2015, a wine from the Malgas Wine Appellation using French and Portuguese varieties, a ZA Confidential podcast…
De Grendel Rubaiyat 2015, a ZA Confidential podcast…
A panel of wine lovers talks with me about the fabulous Bordeaux style blend, the De Grendel Rubaiyat 2015, a ZA Confidential podcast...
De Wetshof Estate Naissance Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, a fine Robertson Cabernet Sauvignon, a ZA Confidential podcast…
De Wetshof Estate Naissance Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, a fine red from De Wet Family of Dewetshof in the Robertson Wine Valley...
Altydgedacht Barbera 2015, a fine Durbanville wine by Etienne Louw, the Estate’s Winemaker, a ZA Confidential podcast…
Altydgedacht Barbera 2015, a child of an excellent vintage, one of the classics from Altydgeacht Wine Estate in the Durbanville Wine Appellation...
Yonder Hill Nicola 2015, a fine Stellenbosch Red Blend by Abé Beukes, a ZA Confidential podcast…
Yonder Hill Nicola 2015, a fine red blend in the Bordeaux style, from the Stellenbosch Wine Estate in a ZA Confidential podcast...
Vondeling Rurale Blanc de Noir 2015, a ZA Confidential podcast…
Using an ancestral way of making sparkling wine, Matthew Copeland offers his Vondeling Rurale Blanc de Noir for our podcast...
Paul Wallace Crackerjack 2016, a ZA Confidential podcast…
A podcast about Paul Wallace Crackerjack 2016, a fine wine from the cooler climes of Elgin. Do try their wines, they have a range of excellent products...
Scottish Leader 12-year-old, a ZA Confidential podcast…
A well worth listening to podcast about Scottish Leader 12-year-old Scotch Whisky, I am with a team of people who love their tot...
Constantia Nectar 2009, a ZA Confidential Podcast…
Constantia has been known since the 1700s for its fine wines, particularly its sweet muscat wines, Constantia Nectar is a new and worthy addition...
A podcast, Aristea MCC Brut Rosé 2016, from ZA Confidential…
The Aristea MCC Brut Rosé 2016, from Krajewski, Krone and Dumeau of Aristea Wines features on this weeks ZA Confidential podcast...
The Garajeest Bruce 2015, a podcast with some interesting people…
Callan Williams, The Garajeest, makes three wines, Jim, Jagger and Bruce. THe Bruce 2015 is a fine Cabernet Franc. Listen to this interesting podcast...
Assaggi – a place of happy memories for me, current happiness for John Fraser…
Assaggi - an Italian in Illovo. Still the best Zucchini Fritti I have ever tasted. John Fraser talks about a recent happy visit.
Can we Toque? Excellent Review of Alfie’s Pizzeria in Pretoria by John Fraser
Alfie's Pizzeria, Pretoria John Fraser, Business Editor and Website Owner of ZA Confidential, wrote this piece after a visit to Alfies. I wanted to board a plane to go and eat there. He said One of my favourite cartoons shows a diner being offered a sprinkle of that horrible fake parmesan you can find. The