Jan Boland Coetzee and Nicky Claassens show us the latest vintages of wines from the foremost Stellenbosch Wine Estate, Vriesenhof...
I made a Berry & Apple Sauce from larder ingredients, it was so good with a Pork Belly we had with a bottle of Alto Shiraz from the Helderberg...
The perfect wine for a Pinotage Celebration in October, from The Momberg Family, Middelvlei Free-Run Pinotage 2018. 100 years of family winemaking...
Peter Falke Wines on Groenvlei Farm on the slopes of the Helderberg is your perfect destination on a spring day...
Spier Spring Wine Tastings will wake you up after your Winter hibernation, excellent food and wine offerings...
A fine Stellenbosch expression, Alto Shiraz 2016, grapes grown on the slopes of the Helderberg...
Sense of Place, a new Flagship Range from Stellenbosch Hills, consists of two truly sublime wine, The Suikerboschrand 2015 & The Kastanjeberg 2015...
So many offerings for you to celebrate Heritage Day at Spier, September 24th, fun for adults and children...
New from Simonsig Wine Estate, a very en vogue, Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel Satin Nectar Rosé. A Demi Sec Wine, the style of which is becoming more and more popular...
Kevin Grobler, the Executive Chef of the award winning Delaire Graff Restaurant on the eponymous Wine Estate in the Stellenbosch Wine Appellations, tells me a couple of secrets...
My Asara #10 The Bell Tower 2013 is a fine blend of Bordeaux wine grape varieties, aged in a selection of 225 litre French oak barrels...
Interesting 5 munutes with Kallie Fernhout, Viticulturist at Delaire Graff Wine Estate, preparer, with his team, of the vineyards to provide fine grapes...
Zevenwacht The Tin Mine Red 2015, a delicious blend of Shiraz, Grenache Noir & Mourvèdre, a sister wine to the Tin Mine white...
Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel Satin Nectar 2017, continues the Kaapse Vonkel innovation going on Simonsig with Francois & Johan Malan...
A fine Cognac from a family producer since 1270 and a stunning MCC from Stellenbosch in my Advent Calendar #17 2018...
Spier, the beautiful Stellenbosch Wine Estate offer a bouquet of Festive Fun Events...
Asara Wine Estate & Luxury Hotel adds more medals to its collection with the Asara The Vineyard Collection Cape Fusion 2015 leading the charge....
Simonsig Red Hill Pinotage 2015 is a fine example of a beautifully elevated Pinotage, South Africa's own grape, created in the late 1920s by Professor Abraham Perold.
Asara Vineyard Collection Shiraz 2015, such a special wine. This June it is available to partner the Slow Roast Springbok Shank with Colcannon Mash in the Sansibar Gin Bar & Bistro.
Jazz & Cheese Fondue at Delheim Get cosy at this popular feast of live jazz, wine and dip-licious cheese! The Delheim Jazz & Cheese Fondue series plays an exciting new tune in the Stellenbosch Winelands this year thanks to the announcement of a collaboration with the Cape Town Music Academy (CTMA) and Jazz in the
There is a formidable team of winemakers at Spier Wine Estate making some serious Spier Reds. Johan Jordaan is the winemaker in charge of the reds under Cellarmaster Frans Smit. Really a lovely place to visit with two restaurants, picnics and a variety of entertainments.
Top of the Hill Pinotage 2015 from South Africa's oldest Pinotage Vineyard, planted in 1950 by the father and uncle of the present owner Pieter de Waal. A truly fine food wine, good with many fully flavoured foods...
Oldenburg Vineyards two new maiden vintage wines released, The Oldenburg ‘Le Quatre Enfants’ Cabernet Franc 2007 and The Oldenburg Joshua Syrah 2007, available from the Estate....
For over 40 years, the Stellenbosch Wine Festival is now a part of South African Wine Culture...
Asara Vineyard Collection Sauvignon Blanc 2017 is a great expression of the grape and fingerprint of the vintage. Perfect as an Aperitif and with Summer Salads.
During these lazy, hazy, what-day-is-it, days between Christmas and New Year when lunch time comes around all too quickly and all you are looking for is a glass of meaningful pink to refresh you and go with a delicious little cold lunch time snack, Peter Falke Blanc de Noir 2017 is just the answer.
My Advent Calendar #23 red wine for Christmas is The Asara Bell Tower 2012. A fine red blend from Stellenbosch, perfect for your Christmas lunch.
Asara MCC Brut 2014 is a crisp, refreshing delicate bubbly. Excellent on its own and also as an aperitif. Perfect food wine....
Welmoed Wines from Stellenbosch Vineyards have a new look and complete the range makeover for Stellenbosch Vineyards....
Delheim's Legendary Spatz Sperling - Wine icon leaves indelible legacy spanning more than six decades on his Wine Estate in the Stellenbosch Wine Appellation.
Bellevue Sauvignon Blanc 2017 - summer in a glass, from the Morkel Family on the Bottelary Road...
Oldenburg Grenache Noir 2015 & Alida Ryder's Low Carb Chicken Satay Salad. The sauce is robust, the chicken can happily take on this dish.
Simonsig Wine Estate offers a taste of their Vintage Wines on their August 12th Vintage Day
The Glenelly Class Collection Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 Madame May Eliane de Lencquesaing, creator of the new Glenelly has a passion for glass as much as she has a passion for wine. The former owner of Chateau Pichon Lalande is Bordeaux Royalty and certainly highly regarded in Stellenbosch. As is her team of Winemaker Luke
Heinrich Opperman_Senior Cellar Assistant Spier is home to a diverse bunch of passionate people, doing what they love, and committed to making a difference every day. Senior cellar assistant Heinrich Opperman, better known as Bones by his colleagues, joined Spier seven years ago as a farm worker. Now a senior cellar assistant, “the growth has
Celebrity Chef Bertus Basson sizzles with pork pleasures If a slow-cooked Sunday lunch makes you happy as a pig in mud, then join the next Pop Up Lunch of the Bottelary Hills Wine Route when celebrity chef Bertus Basson will pay homage to pork and all its palatable pleasures on 14 August. It will be