Spier Creative Block 3 2017, such a perfect partner to Lizet Hartley’s Herbed Mushrooms on Cheesy Polenta…
Spier Creative Block 3 2017, a gem of a Rhone style blend by Johan Jordaan, from Darling and Stellenbosch Grapes...
De Grendel Viognier 2020, perfect with Ian Bergh’s Gnocchi or Risotto on the De Grendel Restaurant menu, or a Butter Roasted Organic Chicken at home…
De Grendel Viognier 2020, do try it, Viognier is not as well known as I would like it to be, this one is sublime...
Advent Calendar Day 8, Bruce Jack Wines, Mary le Bow Viognier 2019…
Bruce Jack Wines, Mary le Bow Viognier 2019 made from grapes from Frater Family Vineyards near Ashton, delicious rich and round...
Advent Calendar Day 6, La Motte Pierneef Syrah Viognier 2017, a gem from this Franschhoek Wine Estate…
La Motte Pierneef Syrah Viognier 2017, a blend of which the sum is greater than the parts, Edmund Terblanche has made a great wine...
Douglas Green Chardonnay Viognier 2020, ‘gorgeous juicy peaches and cream with lemon and lime brightness’…
Douglas Green Chardonnay Viognier 2020, a blend, the sum is greater than the parts, delicious, packed with flavour and palate weight...
Boschendal Vin d’Or, a heritage wine for Heritage Day, so good with Diane Bibby’s Milk Tart Pancake Mille-Feuille…
Boschendal Vin d’Or, a gem in the Boschendal Crown, a Noble Late Harvest Wine in celebration of Heritage Day...
La Motte Pierneef Syrah Viognier 2017, good with Christine Capendale’s Slow Roasted Lamb Pie…
La Motte Pierneef Syrah Viognier 2017, one of the Estate's fine blends, with grapes from Elim, Walker Bay and Franschhoek, dry and delicious...
De Grendel Viognier 2019, so good with a Tomato Kiri Cream Cheese Crostata…
The sublime De Grendel Viognier 2019, aromatic, great fruit, dry and quite an experience if you have not tasted Viognier before...
Perdeberg The Dry Land Collection Rossouw’s Heritage 2017, so good with Ina Paarman’s Flattie in a Frying Pan…
Perdeberg The Dry Land Collection Rossouw’s Heritage 2017, a delicious dry white blend from unirrigated bush vines...
Oldenburg Vineyards Viognier 2018, excellent with my Pickled Fish…
Oldenburg Vineyards Viognier 2018, one of the Estate's Vineyard Series of single variety wines, one of my favourite wine grapes...
Flagstone Word of Mouth Viognier 2017, the perfect wine for Jane Anne Hobbs’s Coronation Chicken Salad…
Flagstone Word of Mouth Viognier 2017. Say vee-yon-yay, a sublime wooded white Rhone Valley grape. Makes Condrieu Wine in France.
Oldenburg Viognier 2017, great food wine, perfect with Nina Timm’s Cape Malay Curry….
This is a grape variety you really should try if you have not. The Oldenburg Viognier 2017 is dry. bright fruited with generous flavours.
La Bri Syrah 2015, perfect partner to Nina Timm’s New York Strip Sirloin…
La Bri Syrah 2015, a perfect expression of a co-fermented Syrah and 5% whole bunch Viognier. Herb and spice aromas and plum and black berry flavours. Sympathetically oaked to allow the fruit to shines.
Flagstone Word of Mouth Viognier 2017 loves a Cape tradition like Ina Paarman’s Masala Gatsby
The cleverly named Flagstone Word of Mouth Viognier 2017 is a wine you will want to tell you friends about. Pass it down the telephone line, tell your friends...
De Grendel Viognier 2017, perfect partner to Alida Ryder’s Grilled Asparagus & Lemon Risotto
De Grendel Viognier 2017, wonderfully aromatic wine made from grapes raised by Kudwai Mwerenga and elevated by Charles Hopkins.
Oldenburg Vineyards Viognier 2016, a fine partner to Nadia Graves’s Perfect Roast Chicken – 08.12.2017
Oldenburg Vineyards Viognier 2016, a deliciously peachy expression of this Condrieu grape. Such a stunning food wine, great with chicken.
La Bri Double Door White 2016, good with Nina Timm’s Traditional Smoorsnoek – 27.11.2017
A little slip in the cellar in 2012 brought about the birth of this Viognier Chardonnay blend, now a firm favourite from the La Bri Cellar.
Current Wines, Eikendal & Wildehurst…great drinking
Two wines we have tasted over this weekend are well worth a mention. Current White Wine in the Fridge Eikendal Chardonnay 2015 Complex and elegant, this wine is pronounced by Eikendal’s winemaker Nico Grobler as “This is the best I’ve made.” Made from four different clones planted on different sites and different planting densities. Each
Oldenburg Viognier 2015 & Alida Ryder’s Cranberry Brie Puff Pastry Wreath – 05.01.2017
Oldenburg's Rondekop, radiant in Autumn Oldenburg is a wine Estate set in the sheer beauty of the southern end of the Banghoek Valley. Surrounded by mountains of Alpine magnificence, it has an enchanting little hill in the middle called Rondekop. Made up of ferrocrete soils which give the most fabulous mineral flavours to the wines.
Tomato & Goat Cheese Tart – Cheryl Bennett
Tomato & Goat Cheese Tart – Cheryl Bennett Cheryl says: “You know when you get a craving for something & you just have to make it? Well, I had wanted to make a tomato tart for a little while and finally got around to doing it. This post started out something like “with summer produce in full
Heerenbone & Brown Shimejis
Heerenbone with Brown Shimeji Mushrooms Heerenbone, a pretty cream colour with a little black eye, are grown on the West Coast, usually by potatoes farmers in between crops. I had my first taste of them at Oep ve Koep, a fabulous tiny restaurant run by Kobus van der Merwe in the little fishing