Introducing Bubbly & Friesday’s! From October until early 2020 every Friday you can enjoy the latest trend in an unusual food pairing – bubbles and French fries. Why fries? When it comes to fancy foods, pairings can lead to some surprisingly delightful combinations. According to experts globally, French fries are the perfect fried accompaniment…
Oh how marvelous! With Champagne day coming up on Friday 18th, I’m exploring some older vintages like this Méthode Cap Classique Chardonnay Pinot Noir Vintage Brut 2013 by Kleine Zalze! It is an old-world style sparkling wine crafted from the finest selected parcels of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Bottle fermented and matured for four years prior to…
Time for bubbles! One simply cannot visit the Elgin wine region without sampling some truly local sparkling wine. Charles Fox sticks to the traditional French method of Champagne making – and in South Africa we call it Methode Cap Classique or MCC for short. Here’s to my 113 wine farm visit! Location: Charles Fox is…
It seems that most wineries in the Plettenberg Bay Winelands have a great backstory of family discovering new lives. Sue and Doug Lund of Newstead Lund Family Vineyards were once from families farming sugar and dairy in KwaZulu-Natal who gave it up to farm vineyards in Plettenberg Bay. The Newstead crest combines two family crests – the…
This was my first stop exploring the Plettenberg Bay winelands and it just so happens that this winery was amongst the first in the Plettenberg Bay Winelands to start planting vineyards after Bramon. The Estate This winery is about a 7-hour drive from Cape Town in an area known as the Grags of Plettenberg Bay….
Wohoo! I made it to 100 farms! Into the TRIPLE digits and one-eighth of the way through my wine farm list! It’s somewhat humbling to realise that each blog post takes me about 9 hours to produce from organising the visit, capturing the experience, research, photo editing and copywriting. It surely is not the easiest of…