A sign of spring. Pincushion proteas (leucospermum)
This was a week in which we attended
two prestigious wine events and were able to taste appropriately wonderful
wines. Méthode Cap Classique may never earn the reputation which Champagne has achieved
after a couple of hundred years of dominating the world of sparkling wines, but
the improvement in quality of these wines since Frans Malan of Simonsig bottled
his first MCC forty years ago is gaining recognition internationally and they
are competing very well on the international stage. Similarly, wines we tasted
at the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction and its tasting a few weeks ago have
reached unprecedented levels of quality and renowned judges have given some of
them scores equal to any of the great names from other continents. South
African wines are showing their Championship quality, and now we just need the
Springboks to repeat their performance of a couple of weeks ago and beat the
All Blacks again on the rugby field….
The Amorim Cork MCC Challenge Awards 2018 at The Twelve
Apostles
This annual event is one of our
favourites, we love bubbles and we always know we are going to be tasting and
drinking some of the best. The only competition committed exclusively to the
Cap Classique category, the Amorim Cap Classique Challenge is sponsored by
Portugal-based cork producer Amorim. This was the 17th year of this prestigious
competition and there were 127 entries, a record. It was held this year (as it
has been for several years) at The Twelve Apostles Hotel on the road from Bakoven to Llandudno…
The 2018 Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction at Spier,
Stellenbosch
This annual action took place last Saturday at
Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. We love going; it is fast and furious and it
is so good to see good wines getting great prices. And to see the happy faces
of the winemakers. Once we had registered, there was a choice of good Guild members’ bubblies to start
the day……
Wednesday Bistro and Vine at Harrington's Cocktail Lounge
One of our Media colleagues found a
Wednesday special at Harrington’s Wine and Vine Cocktail lounge in central Cape
Town, just down the road from Dias Taven, one of our favourite and recently
visited destinations, so we decided to go and check it out
On the MENU this week. Spicy Spanish Tortilla with
chicken
What
to do with left over chicken? Neither of us has been very well this busy week,
John had a root canal filling and is on antibiotics; Lynne has them for a chest
infection, so cooking has not been a priority. We bought a ready cooked chicken
from Checkers for one meal and had the rest in the fridge for another. This is what Lynne came up with…
MENU’s Wine of the Week. Domaine des Dieux Claudia Brut
2012
This wine was the Overall winner of the Amorim
Cap Classique Challenge for 2018. It has also been included among the Top 10
bubblies in the SA Wine Classification, and was awarded a gold medal at the
Sparkling Wine World Championships in the UK. The 2011 was awarded four stars
in the 2018 Platter; it will be interesting to see how this 2012 fares there…
4th October 2018
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