Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Durbanville Hills Rhinofields Chardonnay 2012 has been selected as one of the world’s Top 10 wines in the 2014 Chardonnay du Monde, achieving this accolade against 794 wines from forty countries. Cellarmaster Martin Moore attributes the rolling of the barrels to the complexity and success of the wine. He also says that he does not allow the wine to be overpowered by wood. Minimal rain during the 2012 summer season also contributed to the wine’s success. (received via media release from De Kock Communications)
* Düsseldorf is the new international wine capital of the world, after its successful hosting of ProWein 2014, which was attended by 48000 delegates from Sunday until yesterday. ProWine China will be held for the second time, in Shanghai, from 12 – 14 November.
* SAA has warned passengers to ignore any e-mails purporting to come from the airline and seeking personal and/or banking details via links, requesting passengers to delete any such e-mails.
* Helena Rizzo from Mani in São Paulo in Brazil has been named the Veuve Clicquot World’s Best Female Chef in the World, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants organisers described the winning chef as ‘a model example of cooking with innovation yet soul’.
* Cape Town International is to expand its revenue opportunities by adding more retail outlets. The airport now has 74 outlets, since the building was expanded for the World Cup 2010. More stores are to be built in the international departures duty-free area, reports The New Age.
* The Spur Corporation is to invest R36 million in Braviz Fine Foods’ new 6000 m² meat processing plant in Johannesburg, specialising in processing rib cuts, reports The New Age. To date Spur has sourced ribs, which are one of the most popular items on the menu, from Europe, the factory being able to process 700 tons of ribs a month for the 272 Spur restaurants as well as for export. Over time other meat types will be processed at the factory too.
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage
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