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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 Continue reading →

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

* Renowned international Chef Paul Bocuse is to open Ratatouille Bistro and the L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy ride at Disneyland Paris, inspired by the 2007 ‘Ratatouille‘ animated movie. One will be able to taste Bocuse’s ratatouille. It is Bocuse’s second restaurant in the theme park.

* Cape Town has been awarded the honour of being the Earth Hour Capital 2014 for South Africa, and is competing against 33 Finalist cities from around the world for Global Earth Hour City 2014, reports the Cape Times. Earth Hour will be held from 20h30 – 21h30 on 29 March, as many lights being switched off as possible in that hour. The Earth Hour City Challenge has been created by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Local Governments for Sustainability.

* The Company’s Garden is to return to its roots, in having a vegetable garden reinstated by the City of Cape Town in what was Cape Town’s first fruit and vegetable garden, established by the Dutch East India Continue reading →