{"id":10810,"date":"2010-08-05T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T07:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2010-08-06T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:28:51","slug":"sam-wilson-of-food24-blogs-paired-with-rob-armstrong-of-haut-espoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/sam-wilson-of-food24-blogs-paired-with-rob-armstrong-of-haut-espoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Wilson of Food24 Blogs “paired” with Rob Armstrong of Haut Espoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The\u00a0fourth Food & Wine Bloggers’ Club meeting takes place\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday\u00a018 August,\u00a0from 18h00 – 20h00, at Brio Restaurant, and will pair\u00a0Sam Wilson\u00a0of Food24<\/span> <\/strong>food blogs, and\u00a0Rob Armstrong of Haut Espoir <\/strong><\/span>wines in Franschhoek.<\/p>\n

Sam Wilson <\/strong>is\u00a0the Editor-in-Chief of Woman24, Parent24 and Food24.\u00a0 Food24 has a special page on its website to provide a platform for 440 food bloggers, with 50000 readers and 200000 page impressions per month.\u00a0 Sam was previously a commercial lawyer, and turned to freelance writing after the birth of her sons, before joining Media24.\u00a0She was a speaker at the Food Bloggers’ Conference earlier this year.\u00a0 She has also\u00a0worked as a copywriter, a customer publishing strategist, a columnist and a cocktail bartender. Her websites collectively attract over 500\u00a0000 readers, and she says she “specialises in community management and the art of oversharing”.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rob Armstrong<\/strong> has a BA in Archeology and Environmental and Geographical Science, and runs Haut\u00a0Espoir in Franschhoek.\u00a0 It is celebrating the 10th anniversary of turning this family farm into a red wine farm and planting it with Franschhoek Fynbos.\u00a0 Rob is committed to “minimal intervention” with “mother earth”, both in terms of winemaking and their farming.\u00a0 He is a proud member of the Biodiversity and Wine Initiative.<\/p>\n

The Food & Wine Bloggers’ Club was formed to reflect the tremendous growth in and power of food and wine blogs in forming opinion about food, restaurants and wines.\u00a0 Most bloggers do not have any formal training in blogging, and learnt from others.\u00a0\u00a0 Each of the two bloggers will talk for about half an hour about their blog, and what they have learnt about blogging.\u00a0 The Club will give fledgling as well as experienced bloggers the opportunity to learn from each other and\u00a0to share\u00a0their knowledge with others.\u00a0 Attendees can ask questions, and get to know fellow bloggers.\u00a0 The Club meetings are informal and fun.<\/p>\n

Other writers that will be talking at future Bloggers Club meetings are the following:<\/p>\n

Wednesday 22 September<\/strong>:\u00a0Dax Villanueva\u00a0of Relax-with-Dax Blog, and Hein Koegelenberg of La Motte and Hein Koegelenberg Blog<\/p>\n

Wednesday 20 October:<\/strong> Clare Mack of Spill Blog, and Simon Back of Backsberg Blog<\/p>\n

Wednesday 24 November<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Marisa Hendricks of The Creative Pot Blog, and Emile Joubert of Wine Goggle Blog<\/p>\n

Wines are brought along by the wine blogging speaker, and\u00a0Rob will introduce the\u00a0Haut Espoir\u00a0wines served.\u00a0 Snacks will be\u00a0served.\u00a0\u00a0The cost of attendance\u00a0is R 100.\u00a0 Bookings can be made by e-mailing info@whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Venue:<\/strong> Brio Restaurant<\/span>, 130 Adderley Street (ex-Riboville), two doors down from the Twankey Bar of the Taj Hotel.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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