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South Africa’s best wine bar is?

2018-05-18T09:29:40Z

There are many places to drink wine in South Africa. But there are few wine bars and even fewer that hit the spot like Cape Town’s Publik. It’s a sad state of affairs when rather than visit a wine bar, I prefer to tap into my own cellar at home. But first, let’s look at what we want from a wine bar. In my previous home city of Melbourne, a wine bar would focus on boutique producers of wine (sometimes […]

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Geronimo! it’s cinsault

2018-06-27T10:15:31Z

Geronimo! I’ve made the jump. I’ve landed in cinsault and I like it. It’s not a grape found much in Australia despite it’s resistance to heat and the dry. Prevalent in Languedoc-Roussillon in the south of France, in South Africa it’s becoming a “thing”. The first I discovered was the Seriously Cool Cinsault on the list at Urbanologi at the Mad Giant Brewery, one of the best and most interesting contemporary casual restaurants in Johannesburg. Others include the Craven Cinsault […]

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Bosman Family wines with skin contact: from pink to orange

2018-03-28T12:12:31Z

Look at the colours of these wines. To the right is a skin contact pinot gris and the left a full-on and delicious orange wine. Ignore the moth that snuck into the picture. I’m back in the Hemel-en-Aarde valley (Heaven and Earth valley) at the 8th generation Bosman Family Vineyards. They have been on the land since 1798 working the vineyards founded by a Huguenot in 1699. For the uninitiated orange wine isn’t made of citrus. It describes the colour […]

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Catherine Marshall Pinot Noir

2018-03-15T09:02:55Z

Two pinot noirs. Both alike in dignity, (In fair Elgin, where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where truffle oil makes food unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of pinot lovers take their life, Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their chef’s strife. Cool climate pinot noir Apologies to Shakespeare while I spin this yarn on two delicious cool climate pinot noirs from Elgin. And apologies […]

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