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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines:5/6 October

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*  A production first for New Media Publishing, synonymous with contract publishing, is an amazing video shot on the Franschhoek Pass for its client Mercedes Benz, called Silver Slipstream, in which Man (notorious skateboarder Decio Lourenco, who made headlines when he skated down Kloofnek Road) challenges Machine (Mercedes A 45 AMG) down the Pass, Man winning!

*   It was a wine weekend of note, with the fantastic 47% increase in sales income at R8,4 million at the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction at Spier, and the Veritas Awards ceremony held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.  The top Veritas performers, out of 1792 wines and brandies entered, are:

+  KWV, with 4 double gold and 13 gold medals, and named Continue reading →

WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 17 September

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*   The days of printed travel guides are numbered, delegates at the e-Tourism Africa Summit were told last week.  The Triposo app was introduced to delegates, which allows the traveller to aggregate real time on line tourism information assimilated from different sources.

*   South African hotels offer the best customer service, and it is on a par with hotels in other countries.  Unsurprisingly Government departments and utilities are at the bottom of the list.

*   Boschendal’s Grand Cuvee Brut 2009 has won the Best Vintage Brut at the 2013 Continue reading →

Pendock picks Pinotage to open his new Wine Gallery at Taj Cape Town!

Pendock Wine Gallery full view Whale Cottage PortfolioNotorious Neil Pendock is launching his Pendock Wine Gallery at the Taj Cape Town hotel at 18h00, to many a most unusual move, in a minute space which would not allow more than a handful of persons to move inside the gallery at any time.  The Gallery concept and its link to the hotel’s Mint Restaurant is as quirky as Pendock is.

The roughly 2 by 4 meter space is half of the Edit[ed] hotel shop, and once inside Pendock’s Wine Gallery one can see inside the shop through a glass door, a design weakness, as it does not match the less-is-more sparse design of the Gallery.  Six ornate shelves will hold a bottle of wine each, according to a monthly theme, September being dedicated to Pinotage, but the choice of six is not explained, other than space constraints.  However, Pendock does pride himself on his selection, in that the six (Black Elephant Vintners, Diemersdal, Manley Continue reading →

WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 24/25 August

WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*   The Free World Design Centre in Cape Town is hosting trendtalk#6 on 3 September, with the theme  ‘the colour of the times’. It forms part of National Colour Week, which runs from 1 – 7 September.  Key presenters will share the latest design and décor trends. Entry is free of charge.  The trendtalk#6 speaker panel includes  journalist Les Aupiais, fashion stylist Catherine Bowen, and colour trend forecaster Anne Roselt. (via media release from Free World Design Centre)

*   The Table Mountain Cableway re-opens tomorrow, after a five week closure.

*   Checkers has launched its second Gordon Ramsay and Nataniël TV commercial, now Continue reading →