I had the pleasure of starting my day today with a glass of Champagne and oysters delivered by neighboring Bizerca Bistro at Dorrance Cellar, to witness the bottling of a historic wine.
I was invited by James Boreland to participate in the bottling by owner Christophe Durand of the 2015 vintage of 1771, a Crouchen Blanc (which used to be referred to as a Cape Riesling) made from grapes Continue reading →
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* The announcement last week of the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi at The Cradle of Humankind at Maropeng, and its international media coverage by National Geographic in particular, could give Tourism to our country a much-needed boost.
*. The 31st Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild will be held at Spier on Continue reading →
Last night we were a group of about 40 participating in the first Virtual Twitter Tasting of three Checkers Odd Bins wines, paired with a selection of cheeses from Checkers.
The secret of the Checkers Odd Bin is explained on the back label: ‘Every so often we manage to bring you the odd bin or two of wine from a famous wine farm. To be able to offer you these exceptional wines at a price far lower than what you would pay for them under their original labels, we have vowed to keep their origins a closely guarded secret. However, once the wine has been tasted, we are certain that its secret shall be revealed‘. The Odd Bin front labels look hand-made and appear hand-written, and the dominant information is the bin number.
The invitation to participate in the Twitter Tasting was received via e-mail from Checkers, the retailer having Continue reading →
Dear Blog reader
This has been a very bad tech week for our website and Whale Tales Blog. Following the crash of the website earlier this week, we were able to recover the data with the assistance of our webmaster Jan Laubscher at 406Media, and our American server Host Gator.
Just after I had reposted the 10 days worth of blogposts, which I had received via RSS feed emails, and luckily not deleted (fearing such a day to come, even though it has not previously happened in our 6 years of blogging!), all this work disappeared late yesterday afternoon. I have not been able to receive feedback from 406Media as to how to secure our blogposts going forward, to prevent this from happening again. Frustrating is that Host Gator does back ups automatically, but with a 48 hour lag, which means that all the reposting I did on Thursday and yesterday has been lost.
I will slowly repost again, and have added ‘reposted’ in the headlines of the blogposts I am posting again. I apologise to our RSS Feed subscribers especially for seeing some of these posts for the third time, and beg your indulgence and understanding.
We sincerely hope that this will be the end of our technical hiccups. Thank you for your loyal support of our Blog.
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Tel (021) 433-2100, Twitter:@WhaleCottage Facebook: click here