{"id":4512,"date":"2009-10-06T00:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T22:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2009-10-06T00:38:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T22:38:39","slug":"franschhoek-uncorked-10-and-11-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/franschhoek\/franschhoek-uncorked-10-and-11-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Franschhoek Uncorked : 10 and 11 October"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Franschhoek is saluting spring and celebrating its wine wealth with its third annual Franschhoek Uncorked festival this weekend.\u00a0 Instead of celebrating the best Franschhoek has to offer in\u00a0one central venue\u00a0in the heart of the village, 24 of the village’s best wine estates are inviting winelovers to visit the wine estates.\u00a0 Each participating wine\u00a0estate is offering something unusual for the weekend.<\/p>\n

So, for example, L’Omarins, Rickety Bridge, La Bri and Glenwood are each laying on boules courts; Lynx Wines will offer live flamenco music; Mont Rochelle offers a fun photo session with barrels, bottles and wine props; Plaisir de Merle will serve their yummy crepes for the third year running; Rickety Bridge is serving gourmet picnics and helicopter flips;\u00a0 Topiary Wines are serving sandwiches, curry, and other treats\u00a0from Cafe’ Bon Bon; Vrede & Lust is launching its new Mocholate Malbec Wine Blending competition;\u00a0\u00a0 Alle’e Bleue is offering a sushi demo and the Sterling Electric Quartet\u00a0will perform on Saturday evening; Boekenhoutskloof will offer a barbeque prepared by Reuben’s; at Cabriere one can see Achim von Arnim’s art collection, and compete in the Pierre Jourdan Strongest Throwing Arm\u00a0Competition; Chamonix has a French style “Marche’ de Bourgogne” at Mon Plasir restaurant, with French treats such as terrines, snails, puff pastries, cheeses and breads for sale;\u00a0\u00a0Dieu Donne’ offers a jazz band;\u00a0\u00a0 Graham Beck is serving sushi and oysters; Grande Provence offers an art exhibition by Jenny Groenewald; La Bri is having a snoek-braai;\u00a0 La Brasserie goes ‘Uncorked and Unplugged’ on Friday evening; and La Motte serves Claude Bolling’s classical jazz\u00a0on both evenings,\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winetasting tickets cost R 60 each, and can be bought at Vrede & Lust (at the Simondium end of Franschhoek),\u00a0at the\u00a0Tourism Bureau (Info Centre) on Huguenot Road in Franschhoek, or online at www.webtickets.co.za<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The ticket allows unlimited access to all the participating wine estates.\u00a0 More details and the full\u00a0programme\u00a0are available on www.franschhoek.org.za<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Franschhoek is saluting spring and celebrating its wine wealth with its third annual Franschhoek Uncorked festival this weekend.\u00a0 Instead of celebrating the best Franschhoek has to offer in\u00a0one central venue\u00a0in the heart of the village, 24 of the village’s best wine estates are inviting winelovers to visit the wine estates.\u00a0 Each participating wine\u00a0estate is offering […]<\/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":[14,20,21,19],"tags":[1396,577,2318,1397,2324,250,32369,232,2315,2317,226,140,2322,653,2323,2316,1540,2321,2319,228,41,583,2320,578,32373,365],"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