© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Schultz Brothers wines dinner at Aubergine
Roland Peens of the Wine Cellar with
Christian Eedes
Getting to know each other, drinking
Hartenberg chardonnay and Sutherland sauvignon blanc . Joanne Gibson talks to
Rudi Schultz
Chef/owner of Aubergine Harald
Bresselschmidt talks to Lynne about flu
The menu
Canapés of tiny warm Fishcakes and
Aubergine and goats cheese pralines.
and more of Quail Eggs Benedict
Tables all set for the dinner and the
wine tasting
Two ladies with Roland Peens
We introduce ourselves to our table
companions
Harald welcomes us to the event
Carl Schultz of Hartenberg tells us
about his wines
Our first course of a delicious creamy
mussel broth, packed with flavor which matched the 2012 Kleinood Viognier
perfectly
The next course was a Game fish tataki
with wasabi mayonnaise, a daikon and cucumber roll with wakame seaweed and a
ginger dressing. Paired with the gentle Hartenberg 2010 Riesling
One of the best wines of the evening,
Hartenberg’s Gravel Hill Shiraz
There were two main courses to go with
four red wines. First a veal brisket
with morel mushrooms, redcurrant sauce and a savoy cabbage parcel filled with
meat to match the flinty and intensely fruity 2005 Hartenberg Gravel Hill
Shiraz which is drinking absolutely perfectly at the moment and the Kleinood
2008 Tamboerskloof Shiraz which is soft and full of fruit and spice.
Rudi Schultz of Thelema and Sutherland tells
us about his wines
And his brother Werner the Thelema viticulturalist tells us some family history and how he got involved.
Three of the brothers: Gunter, Carl
and Werner. In the background is
Nils Hecksher, General Manager of Winchester Mansions hotel in Sea Point.
John struck up a good friendship with
the sommelier, Khuselo Mputa
After a nice pause and a prize giving,
we had the second main of Braised lamb shank with waterblommetjes and pumpkin
couscous cakes. This was served with
Thelema’s sultry and spicy 2005 Shiraz and Rudi Shultz Syrah 2009, also intense
and full of deep dark fruit.
Lucky numbers meant winning some wine
or a meal at Aubergine.
Journalist Joanne Gibson won a bottle
of Gravel Hill
The four Schultz brothers together:
Rudi, Werner, Gunter and Carl
taking photos of the event
A surprise birthday plate for Lynne
with a slice of iced seed cake.
Dessert was a goats milk cheesecake
with kumquats and a crisp three cheese pirogen with a Riesling poached pear
which had a delicious syrupy sauce.
Paired with the Thelema 2009 NLH Riesling and the Hartenberg 2012
Occasional Riesling
And then there were plates of wickedly
wonderful friandise to go with coffee
The four Schultz sons with their
parents. You can see where they got
their good looks
Proud parents Mrs and Mr Schultz senior
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2013
Al fresco lunch at Dunes
This is, almost unbelievably, a mid-winter day on the 9th of
August 2013, Woman’s Day public holiday at Hout Bay beach. It was glorious to feel some warm sun in the
middle of what has been a very wet winter. Sadly there were no whales in the
bay that day.
Fishcakes with chips and a tartar
sauce for Lolly. The fishcakes had lots
of mixed smoked and plain fish and were a little unexpected. Someone had put English mustard in the tartare
sauce. Not great
Lynne’s dish of light and crisp
battered very tender calamari strips and far too many chips with the same
strange tartar sauce.
John’s excellent beer battered fish
and chips
Ronnie’s rather dry fried angelfish and chips. All these dishes would have
been improved by a little salad.
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2013
Monday 2 for 1 burgers at Gibson's
The harbour at the V & A
Waterfront
Both burgers were well
cooked, well seasoned, moist and beefy.
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2013
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