Now this is how you celebrate South Africa’s National Shiraz Day tomorrow!
This exceptional blend of wine tasting, breathtaking scenery, and vintage rail travel creates an unforgettable adventure for both wine lovers and railway enthusiasts.
Our favourite red wine event, the Shiraz, Charcuterie and Cheese Festival, returns to Anthonij Rupert Wyne in Franschhoek this Saturday, 25 May.
While many Saffas are pretty wine literate, some folks might not know why a server pours a little tasting before giving you a full glass.
If slow braised venison, and Springbok loin with soft parmesan polenta sounds like a good Saturday or Sunday afternoon, you will have to be quick to make a reservation.
‘Blind Ambition’ is a stirring and entertaining documentary about four sommeliers who combine their forces to form Zimbabwe’s first national wine-tasting team.
Wine tasting is usually a relatively chilled affair, and so it should be, but that doesn’t mean etiquette can be thrown out the window.
Forget about any Sunday blues, head to the Cape Winelands, and finish your weekend off right.
Whether you’re a wine expert or an amateur imbiber, knowing the details about what you’re sipping on can help you enjoy it just that much more.
Thanks to cool temperatures, unusually high rainfall, and a late harvest, this year’s wine will be of “exceptional” quality.
Out of ideas for what to do this weekend? How about an excellent brekkie, some wine tasting, and an out of this world lunch?
The sale of alcohol from retail outlets is once again restricted to set days and hours during the week, with one notable exception. Hello, wine farms.
Nothing screams summer quite like sipping on a glass of wine while taking in a spectacular view.
You don’t need to be a sommelier, but nobody wants to be accused of drinking wine like a noob. Here are some basic principles to work on.
Food and wine connoisseurs in Cape Town are gearing up for Noble Vice, an all-inclusive and unrivalled tasting experience headed our way.
It doesn’t get much better than a day out in Franschhoek, which is why wine lovers are looking forward to the end of the month.
The Franschhoek Uncorked wine festival, happening this weekend, is looking even bigger and better than before. Here’s what to look out for.
Everyone remembers their 21st birthday, right? No? It was probably because it was THAT big a party and this year the Bastille Festival is celebrating its 21st… Things are going be unmissable and wild!
Time to put the laptop down and tackle winter head-on. ..
Everyone needs a little bit of warm fuzzy national love… yes, even you sharp-minded cynics! We LOVE this clip and you will too….
Need a little help? Hosting a wine tasting club isn’t always the easiest thing to do, especially if you don’t have a lot of experience with the theme. Wine Tasting is becoming a little bit of thing lately, so we thought we’d equip you with the knowledge that you’ll need to pull off hosting a wine tasting club succesfully. […]
Wine judging is a strange endeavor. As weird, I imagine, as the judging at country fairs of jams, tarts, cakes, flower arrangements, and whatever other product of pastoral hobbies are put forward.
This is the first in what I hope to be a fairly regular column that offers you a guide to a day or two out in the wine lands. I, your strong livered, hard-of-constitution wine reporter will plan a weekend trip for you; giving all the directions, the best places to eat and sleep, and, of course, the best wine farms to stop at. I thought I would start with the Swartland.