The classic view of Table Mountain across Table Bay from Blaauwberg on a perfect Summer day
The year is already warming up and we are
receiving some exciting invitations to events which we look forward to
describing to you when we’ve been to them
This weekend will see us at one of the great events of the year, the Hemel en Aarde Pinot Noir Celebration. This week’s stories follow, click on the headline, the photograph or the green words at the end of the paragraph to see the whole story
This weekend will see us at one of the great events of the year, the Hemel en Aarde Pinot Noir Celebration. This week’s stories follow, click on the headline, the photograph or the green words at the end of the paragraph to see the whole story
On the way home from our
Summer Holiday, we made a reservation for lunch at Russell’s on the Port hotel
and restaurant at Velddrif. We had lunch there last January and vowed to be
back. It has both great food and a very relaxed atmosphere. It’s next to the Port Owen Yacht club…
The view from the beach at Blaauwberg!
Cape Town is doing turquoise so well this year. The fine white sand is almost
blinding. A little breezy, but this side of the coast does get a bit of wind.
It is a great place for kite sailing and surf boarding, you just have to be
careful not to be taken out past Robben Island…
We are fans of good Indian
food and Lynne, who is a member of a Facebook restaurant page called Cape Town
Restaurants, the Good, the Bad and the Nasty, found that The Indian Chapter in
Blaauwberg was recommended by members as one of the best in Cape Town. We were
going to be in the area, so we made a booking for lunch during the week. The
restaurant is owned by Prim Reddy, a TV and Radio personality…
This is always the time of year when
we have several good friends visiting from overseas. And doing a wine tour with
them is always fun. Diana Loots studied for the Cape Wine Academy Diploma with us
way back in the 90s. We took her and her husband Philip on a tour of some
Durbanville wine farms. We began at Nitída…
On Saturday, we visited the
Oranjezicht City Farm Market at the Waterfront and met some old friends from
the brief time when we, too, worked in markets like the Biscuit Mill. It is a
dynamic place selling good comestibles from local suppliers to keen foodies and
featuring the fresh organic fruit and veg produced at the Oranjezicht City
Farm. It is now open on Saturday and Sunday so you can go and buy your fresh
produce for the following week…
Friends joined us for lunch
on New Year’s day and, as this time of year has the best selection of tropical
fruit and berries, our dessert was a classic. It’s not difficult to make at
all, remember to take your eggs out of the fridge a few hours before. Lynne
made the meringue the day before and had a challenge. Our gas oven is playing
up and would not light. The temperature in the oven is impossible to control
and so she risked cooking this in our combination oven where you can set the
temperature to the desired 110°C degrees and cook in the Convection mode – she
just had to use a lined Pyrex or porcelain dish instead of anything metal. It worked well…
The 2015 Grande Matriarch MCC
from Nitída in Durbanville is, unusually for a bubbly, 100% Pinot Noir and it
so impressed and surprised us that we have made it our wine of the week. It has
cherry and raspberry on the elegant nose and on the palate the best expression
of cherry ever, so quaffable. It has good length and depth, elegance and lovely
maturity from 39 months on the lees. So exciting and so delicious. R225 on the
farm and as you see, also available in magnums for great celebrations…
Things to do
Sunday, 27th January Groote Post’s First 2019 Country Market. For further information on the Groote Post Country
Market. Contact I Love Yzer: 022 451 2202 or info@iloveyzer.co.za /
www.grootepostcountrymarket.co.za • Facebook.com/GrootePostCountryMarket • @GPCountryMarket
Saturday, 2nd March Harvest Festival at Muratie Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. For further information and
bookings contact Nina Martin at Muratie on 021 865 2330/2336 or info@muratie.co.za
Friday & Saturday, 1st & 2nd March RMB Starlight Concert at Vergelegen. Details and tickets
at http://www.capetownopera.co.za/production/rmb-starlight-classics/
24th January 2019
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