New Table at Oak Valley and Bloem Restaurant at Paul Clüver
AND THEN there were two… Many who love wining and dining in South Africa’s Cape winelands have fond memories of lunching alfresco on the lawn at De Meye Estate along […]
SA’s Delaire & Tokara among Best in Show – Decanter Awards
THREE of South Africa’s finest wines of the year, 97-pointers at the 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards in the UK and with exceptional credentials established over many years involving numerous […]
Eat Out Awards: La Colombe best restaurant in Cape winelands
WHO SAW that coming! With Chef Johannes Richter in charge of the kitchen, The Livingroom at Summerhill Guest Estate outside Durban has been named Restaurant of the Year at South […]
Eat Out critics recommend Top 12 restaurants among the vines
ALMOST just as interesting as who is included on the A-list of South Africa’s leading restaurant guide, is who is left off. Of the 42 establishments Eat Out have applauded […]
Elgin 3:1 Hemel-en-Aarde – SA Pinot Noir Report 2022
NO DOUBT some of the folks up and down the Hemel-en-Aarde between Hermanus and Caledon were a little twitchy after the results of South Africa’s 2022 Mosaic Top 5 Pinot […]
2022 Elgin winelands checklist: where to go, what to go for
HARD TO BELIEVE that 20 years ago this wine route was still struggling to get off the ground, so to speak. Whereas today, not only is Elgin home to some […]
Koelenhof Legacy is Red Wine of the Year at SA National Wine Challenge
THERE WERE A NUMBER of familiar labels among the ‘Best in Class’ and ‘Wine of the Year’ laureates that shone in the 2021 SA National Wine Challenge, but nobody could […]
Two beauties from Delaire Graff star in Winemag’s Chardonnay Report
THE ODDS are stacked in favour of the top-rated Chardonnay in SA Winemag’s 2020 Prescient Report coming from either Elgin or Stellenbosch. The announcement of who and what got the […]
Mosaic Top 5 panel chuffed with best SA Pinot Noir, but hardly ecstatic
ANOTHER interesting line-up of wines from that ‘heartbreak grape’. To think that there are so many Pinot Noir producers in South Africa! And kudos to Elgin-based Master of Wine Richard […]
