{"id":69000,"date":"2015-06-22T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=69000"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:12:20","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-22-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-22-june\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 22 June"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* \u00a0WOSA (Wines of South Africa)\u00a0CEO Siobhan Thompson has described the wines of our country as using ‘fusion wine-making’<\/i>, the ‘newest generation of wines<\/i>‘ being made with confidence in theown style of the winemaker, creating a blend of Old and New World wines, which are ‘uniquely<\/i>\u00a0South African<\/i>‘.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Tourist numbers declined by 7% between February 2014 and 2015, reports Business Day<\/b>. In the same period the number of tourists from China, a market that is still small but has been seen to have huge potential, has declined by 32%!<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Reformulated Scottish Leader Original, sold in 60 countries, has been named a Master in the Blended: Standard Category at the Global Scotch Whisky Masters competition in the UK. (Received via media release from De Kock Communications)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0Morrison’s M Signature Pinotage is the only Pinotage to have won Gold at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2015. Morrison’s is a retailer in the UK, but the producer of the wine is not known. Its origin is Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The UK government and tour operators are preparing plans for the ‘largest peacetime evacuation’<\/i> of 110000 Britons from Greece, should the country be forced to leave the Eurozone, reports eTN<\/b> News<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Tel (021) 433-2100, Twitter:@WhaleCottage \u00a0Facebook: \u00a0<\/strong>click here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0WOSA (Wines of South Africa)\u00a0CEO Siobhan Thompson has described the wines of our country as using ‘fusion wine-making’, the ‘newest generation of wines‘ being made with confidence in the<\/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":[3,124,266,20,22,21,13915,19],"tags":[2152,32378,19280,1370,15103,30,31365,3514,9486,31362,819,12119,426,31364,31363,21104,1483,5,1721,561,32373,10,365,156,155],"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