{"id":50560,"date":"2013-11-04T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=50560"},"modified":"2013-11-04T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T13:37:15","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-4-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-4-november\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 4 November"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhaleTales\"<\/a>Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0Our top 10 WhaleTales \u00a0blogposts, based on unique readership for October, were the following:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0 The Eat Out Top 20 Restaurant Awards shortlist predictions<\/a><\/p>\n

2. \u00a0 Pieter versus Pendock: Sour Grapes<\/a><\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Restaurant Review of La Parada Bree Street<\/a><\/p>\n

4. \u00a0 Delaire Graff makes history in Eat Out Restaurants Awards<\/a><\/p>\n

5. \u00a0 Breaking News: Pendock Proceedings Pending<\/a>!<\/p>\n

6. \u00a0 WOSA Sommelier World Cup competition<\/a><\/p>\n

7. \u00a0 New Restaurant Openings and Closures<\/a><\/p>\n

8. \u00a0 ‘Pendock Uncorked’ TIMES Live corked, blanked out!<\/a><\/p>\n

9. \u00a0 Charly’s Cake Angels Season 2<\/a><\/p>\n

10. \u00a0 Cape Town and Winelands Restaurant Winter Specials<\/a><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 There are more than 20000 food blogs<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and more blogs are devoted to food than to any other topic!<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 SAA has announced the wines it will be serving on board its flights next year, as chosen by a panel of local and international judges, which included Bennie Howard, Miguel Chan, Tatiana Marcetteau, Carmen Stevens, Gregory Mutambe, Ralf Rudolf Anselmann, Debra Meiburg, and Susan Erasmus. \u00a0The judges had to judge the 1017 wines entered by 167 wineries blind, on the basis that ‘human taste buds may be dulled by up to 30% when flying<\/em>‘, reports the Sunday Times<\/strong>. Of the seventy wines selected by the judges, the winners were announced as follows:<\/p>\n

+ \u00a0 White wine of the year: Spier Creative Block #2 2012<\/p>\n

+ \u00a0 Red wine of the Year: Saronsberg Provenance Rooi 2011<\/p>\n

+ \u00a0 Methode Cap Classique of the year: Villiera Brut Natural Chardonnay 2009<\/p>\n

+ \u00a0 Port of the year: \u00a0 Boplaas Cape Tawny Show Selection Reserve<\/p>\n

+ \u00a0 Top producer overall was DGB, for having the most wines listed \u00a0as well as being the largest volume supplier.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 New Wines of South Africa (WOSA) CEO Siobhan Thompson will aim to push the top end South African wines,<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and hopes to push up the prices to over\u00a0\u00a35 a bottle in the UK. \u00a0Her main focus will be the USA and Africa, in addition to the UK.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0While Durban is considering bidding for the 2022 Commonwealth Games<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, it has not made a final decision to do so.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Gabri\u00eblskloof Favourite Things Market will be held on 13 and 14 December, offering winetasting, sparkling wine, oysters, home made produce, craft items, cheeses, cured meats, clothing, jewellery and shoes. (received via media release from Random Hat Communications)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Steenberg is hosting Christmas Carols on 19 December, at R123,90 per person. \u00a0Food and wines will be on sale. (received via e-mail from Steenberg)<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a> \u00a0Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0Our top 10 WhaleTales \u00a0blogposts, based on unique readership for October, were the following: 1. \u00a0 The Eat Out Top 20 Restaurant Awards shortlist predictions 2. \u00a0 Pieter versus Pendock: Sour Grapes 3. \u00a0Restaurant Review of La Parada Bree Street 4. \u00a0 Delaire Graff makes history in Eat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4795,3,124,20,22,21,19],"tags":[22083,2158,8897,416,22079,13541,32378,22085,22081,1736,9379,6301,30,4664,22084,12428,22077,15561,497,13955,4512,22080,20346,3625,759,6601,21104,22082,231,10903,5431,21641,5,561,562,2837,32373,10,365,156,1314,155,22078],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\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\n\t\t