A few hours drive north of Sydney, Hunter Valley offers wine lovers a unique opportunity to taste some of Australia’s premium wines.  There are so many wonderful vineyards to choose from in the Hunter Valley it is a difficult task narrowing them down into a short list. Luckily, there’s a huge range of accommodation to [...]

I admire people who can cook well and make it look easy at the same time. I am one of those people who never – or hardly ever – have the ingredients for a recipe in my kitchen and once I have to check, make a list, go and shop; I give up and buy [...]

I took the drive through to Somerset West for the SA Young Wine Awards and after meeting up with some friends, decided to do the Workshop – a first for the awards. Charl Theron is always great as a lecturer and I found the workshop very interesting, as we got to taste and judge some [...]

I came across an article written by Chris von Ulmenstein and I thought this would make for interesting reading as I am sure we sometimes find ourselves in a dilemma about do we or don’t we …say what we think that is.
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Napier Winery owner, Michael Loubscher and his management team, Junior Burger and Leon Bester, took on a project that ended in successful completion last week when 13 houses were handed over to farm workers.
With a backlog of between 450 000 and 500 000 houses in the Western Cape, this is a step on the road [...]

Annelize Gerber, the new marketing broom at Riebeeck Valley Hotel is certainly sweeping clean and has big plans to put the hotel back on the map. The Riebeeck valley Hotel is within an hour from Cape Town and the ideal family getaway.
Lizz Meiring known as one of South Africa’s most versatile entertainment artists, a celebrated [...]

Tread Lightly is the name of the Backsberg PET bottled Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc. Now, Tread Lightly because we need to be more careful of what we are doing to the earth or Tread Lightly on others’ feelings because Simon Back from Backsberg thought of this first?
The first thing I thought when saw the bottles [...]

You like your wine, but sometimes you’re just more comfortable with a mug. Well this double-walled do-it-all lets you have it both ways. Elegant wine stem on the inside, manly beer stein on the outside, it’s a glass for all reasons.  So pour yourself a nice measure of vino, grab it with gusto, thoughtfully inhale [...]

Kleinevalleij, just outside Wellington, on the Bains Kloof Road, is one of my favourite venues in the Winelands. Stunning in Summer with terraces overlooking the mountains and open fires in Winter with a long covered verandah and comfortable couches.
Bea Van der Vyver, well known singer did her cabaret, “Handsak van Beton” at Kleinevalleij and with [...]

I thought about the 30 year business I ran with a lot of employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.
I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me [...]