Riebeek Valley Olive Festival
Looking for something fabulous to do this long weekend? Well, my giddy aunt, it’s time for the annual Riebeek Valley Olive Festival! I blush at the thought that I lived in Cape Town for 15 years before I finally woke up and caught on that the small hamlet of Riebeek Kasteel (a mere hour’s drive from Cape Town – if [...]
Cellarbake @ Nitida
I don’t need much of an excuse to pop the cork on a bottle of something fine. I need even less of an excuse to pop delectable morsels into my mouth. Promise me both those things and you have my attention. And so it is with the annual Cellarbake festival at Nitida wine farm in the Durbanville wine region. Now [...]
Volare italian restaurant, constantia, cape town
Italian food. It’s up there with Chinese for being misunderstood and mauled. Say Italian and most of us think pizza, lasagna and alfredo. You can’t really blame us, for the offerings of most Italian restaurants are limited to pretty much that. They’re mostly badly done too, which is why I generally baulk at the thought of eating out Italian, and [...]
Riesling & Rarities Rock Festival, Hartenberg
Asking about my favourite wine is, I imagine, a bit like asking a mother to name her favourite kid. It’s tricky to comment, because I love them all. But if you got all insistent about it, I’d probably have to admit that Riesling is right up there. I love it dry. I love it off-dry. I just adore it in [...]
Lanzerac wine estate, Stellenbosch
My earliest memory of the Lanzerac wine estate dates back 30 odd years. I was super impressed. Not by their wines of course. Being fairly sensible folk, my parents didn’t stand for that sort of nonsense from an 8-year old. Nope, Mini Me was gobsmacked by their Cape Dutch manor house. We didn’t really have those in the Transvaal. What [...]
festive franschhoek, 10-16 december
Being a frightful Francophile, it’s probably unsurprising that I am rather fond of Franschhoek. My association with this charming Boland village goes way back. (It is of course obligatory to call it a ‘village’ as it’s far too charming and elegant for the rather ordinary moniker of ‘town’.) Now I’m not going to say how far back, as I’ve been [...]