Woolies Launches Premium Range of Boxed Wine…
Woolies Launches Premium Range of Boxed Wine, 2 litre containers from Beyerskloof Diemersdal, Kleine Zalze and Pierre Jourdan...
Pierre Jourdan MCC Blanc de Blancs, so good with Fresh Oysters and Nic van Wyk’s Sauce Mignonette…
Pierre Jourdan MCC Blanc de Blancs, is the flagship Méthode Cap Classique, made with Chardonnay on the Haute Cabrière Estate in the Franschhoek Wine Valley...
Pierre Jourdan Ratafia, todays hidden gem on #sawinelockdown…
Pierre Jourdan Ratafia, today's hidden gem on #sawinelockdown, a unique drink made in Franschhoek, none other like it in the country...
Haute Cabrière serves great breakfasts – here’s what to order…
Start the day with a good breakfast, start the day with an Haute Cabrière Breakfast, and a bottle of Pierre Jourdan Cap Classique...
Haute Cabrière Pinot Noir Rosé 2019, perfect with Jane-Anne Hobbs’s Chicken Liver Paté with a Jellied Verjuice Topping…
Joining an illustrious stable of wines in the Franschhoek Wine Appellation, the Haute Cabrière Pinot Noir Rosé 2019, a perfect year-round wine...
May 23rd is International Chardonnay Day; I pay homage to a couple of my current favourites….
Tomorrow, May 23rd is International Chardonnay Day, celebrated around the world. Impossible to choose a favourite, these are some of my current tastings...
Pierre Jourdan MCC Brut nv, perfect with Nic van Wyk & Westley Muller’s Cold Smoked Trout with Asparagus & Fennel salad…
Pierre Jourdan MCC Brut nv, the first production in 1986, has spawned a number of fine Pierre Jourdan Cap Classiques...
Pierre Jourdan Ratafia – ready for the ratification of your treaty…
Pierre Jourdan Ratafia, a wine to celebrate the ratification of a treaty. Also a wine you will enjoy at both ends of the menu. Fortified Chardonnay - a treat.
Prawn Cocktail Salad – Alida Ryder
Alida Ryder's Prawn Cocktail Salad Alida Ryder’s recipes are always so good looking, so beautifully photographed and almost tactile and so utterly delicious. Some are modern and up to date, and others, like this are a riff on a 1960s favourite, the Avocado Ritz, without the avocado! The amounts for the salad aren’t
Haute Cabrière – Sun-Soil-Vine-Man
Haute CabrièreSun-Soil-Vine-Man In the late 1960s a lady called Theodora von Arnim – more correctly The Baroness Theodora von Arnim - ran a little gift shop in the Parkade in central Cape Town called Theodora’s Boutique. She was a unique, if not mildly eccentric, lady. Some years later, I returned from the UK