{"id":25659,"date":"2011-10-04T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=25659"},"modified":"2011-10-05T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T23:04:50","slug":"food-wine-bloggers-club-pairs-jorgensens-potstill-brandy-honest-chocolate-and-the-haas-coffee-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/food-wine-bloggers-club-pairs-jorgensens-potstill-brandy-honest-chocolate-and-the-haas-coffee-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Food & Wine Bloggers’ Club pairs Jorgensen’s potstill brandy, Honest Chocolate, and the Haas Coffee Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This month, the Food & Wine Bloggers\u2019 Club marries three unique Cape artisanal businesses, and hosts Jorgensen\u2019s Savignac Potstill Brandy and Honest Chocolate, at coffee merchants and art and design specialists Haas Collective.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jorgensen\u2019s Distillery<\/a><\/span><\/strong> is in Wellington, and Dawn Jorgensen has been a faithful\"\"<\/a> attendee of the Food & Wine Bloggers\u2019 Club meetings, having briefly introduced their Primitiv Vodka to members last year. Their portfolio of handcrafted spirits has since grown, to include Jorgensen\u2019s Gin, Field of Dreams Absinthe, Naked Lemon Limoncello, <\/span>Naked Lime Liqueur, and the Savignac Potsill Brandy. <\/span>Roger Jorgensen lovingly handcrafts the spirits products with passion, hard work and endeavour. Dawn handles Marketing and Sales, and is an ardent user of Social Media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honest Chocolate<\/a><\/span><\/strong> opened for business earlier this year, handcrafting their organic chocolate. <\/span>Both owners Anthony Gird \"\"<\/a>and Michael de Klerk are passionate about chocolate, and evolved from experimenting with raw cocoa powder. Anthony is a self-taught chocolate maker, and was joined by Michael, who had similarly experimented with chocolate making in London. Last month they opened their first shop, on Wale Street, and manufacture and sell from this outlet. <\/span>They also have a representative in Johannesburg, supplying outlets and they have a stand at the new Neighbourgoods Market there. They Blog and Tweet, in-between their chocolate making.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Haas Collective<\/a> is ever-evolving, with its Haas Coffee Collective, Haas Communications Collective, Haas Design Collective, and Haas Gallery Collective, four businesses that have Capetonians raving, the coffee shop having become a firm favorite of many, the only outlet serving Kopi Lawak coffee in South Africa. <\/span>Coffee is supplied from Strictly Coffee in Robertson.\"\"<\/a>They also serve breakfasts, lunches and cakes, seven days a week. Haas uses Twitter to entice followers into their emporium. <\/span>Haas is owned by Francois Irvine and Glynn Venter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Food & Wine Bloggers\u2019 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 The Food & Wine Bloggers\u2019 Club aims to foster this informal training, and to serve as a social media networking opportunity.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Dawn and Roger Jorgensen, as well as Anthony and Michael will each speak for about half an hour about their businesses, and the role that Social Media plays in them, and there will be product tastings too. <\/span>The meeting will be held in the Haas Gallery. <\/span> <\/span>The Club giv<\/span>es 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.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Future Food & Wine Bloggers\u2019 Club meetings have been organised as follows:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 12 November: Visit to new\u00a0Leopard\u2019s Leap<\/a><\/strong><\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong>tasting room and cookery school in Franschhoek<\/span><\/p>\n

Food & Wine Bloggers\u2019 Club,<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span>Wednesday 19 October: Haas Collective, 67 Rose Street, corner Church Street, Bo-Kaap<\/span>, Cape<\/span> <\/span>Town. Bookings can be made by e-mailing Chris at\u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/a>. <\/span><\/span>The cost of attendance\u00a0is R100.\u00a0 Twitter: @FoodWineBlogClu\u00a0 Facebook:\u00a0click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month, the Food & Wine Bloggers\u2019 Club marries three unique Cape artisanal businesses, and hosts Jorgensen\u2019s Savignac Potstill Brandy and Honest Chocolate, at coffee merchants and art and design specialists Haas Collective. Jorgensen\u2019s Distillery is in Wellington, and Dawn Jorgensen has been a faithful attendee of the Food & Wine Bloggers\u2019 Club meetings, having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4795,3,124,266,21],"tags":[11930,13582,1591,32378,3854,13584,13587,4571,10471,10472,10462,10465,13590,10467,13591,11797,11796,13586,13583,13592,4911,11931,13588,13589,5970,7554,13585,32395,10475,3159,32373],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t