{"id":8475,"date":"2010-05-12T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=8475"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T10:35:25","slug":"new-bloggers-club-pairs-food-and-wine-bloggers-and-food-and-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/new-bloggers-club-pairs-food-and-wine-bloggers-and-food-and-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bloggers’ Club pairs Food and Wine Bloggers, and food and wine!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The new Food & Wine Bloggers’ Club, which has its first meeting at the Chef’s Warehouse and Cookery School\u00a0in Cape Town next Wednesday 19 May\u00a0from 18h00 – 20h00, will pair a Food Blogger and a Wine Blogger at each of the monthly meetings of the Club.<\/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 The Club will give fledgling as well as experienced bloggers the opportunity to learn from each other and\u00a0to share one’s knowledge with others.<\/p>\n

Michael Olivier is the first Food Blogger (although he could equally be speaking about Wine Blogging),\u00a0 writing\u00a0blog Michael Olivier<\/strong><\/span>, to speak at the Bloggers Club.\u00a0 He trained at the London Cordon Bleu Cookery School, and is\u00a0a well-known Cape Food and Wine guru.\u00a0\u00a0 Michael was a highly regarded restaurateur (Paddagang in Tulbagh, Burgundy in Hermanus, Parks in Constantia), worked at The Lanzerac Hotel, was PR Manager for Boschendal, and has written three books: “A Restaurateur Remembers”, “crush” and “The People’s Guide – navigate the winelands in a shopping trolley”.\u00a0 He has been a consultant to Pick ‘n Pay on wine retailing, and presents a daily programme on Fine Music Radio (“Michael Olivier Talking Wine”) and a weekly on-air winetasting\u00a0programme on ClassicFM.\u00a0\u00a0 Michael’s Blog focuses on People, Places, Wine and Food. (The photograph is from Michael Olivier’s blog).<\/p>\n

Michael will share the platform of the opening meeting of the Bloggers’ Club with Anel Grobler of SpitorSwallow,<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>a unique “website for wine enthusiasts who visit a lot of wine farms.”\u00a0\u00a0 Not only is the cellar door experience rated from a winelover’s perspective, but also restaurants, weddings, accommodation and other events on wine estates are rated too.\u00a0 Anel started her blog with her partner Jan Laubscher\u00a02 years ago, and won 3rd place in the 2009 Bloggers’ Awards, in the Food & Wine Category.\u00a0 The site has 650 active users, and 2000 reviews of wine estates, from which a monthly eagerly-contested Top 10 list is announced.\u00a0 Anel herself has visited 260 out of the 600 wine estates in South Africa, and hopes to visit the remaining ones!\u00a0\u00a0 She started the www.winetimes.co.za<\/a>\u00a0website earlier this year, with local wine news.<\/p>\n

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

Thursday 1 July<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pete\u00a0Goffe-Wood of Wild Woods and Kitchen Cowboys Blog, and Pieter Ferreira of Graham Beck and Bubbles on Wine Blog<\/p>\n

Wednesday 28 July<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Foodie of The Foodie Blog, and Mike Ratcliffe of Warwick and Vilafonte Wines Blog<\/p>\n

Wednesday 18 August<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Sam Wilson of Food24 Blogs, and Rob Armstrong of Haut Espoir\u00a0<\/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>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clare Mack of Spill Blog, and Simon Back of Backsberg Blog<\/p>\n

Wednesday 24 November<\/strong>:\u00a0 Jane-Anne Hobbs of Scrumptious Blog, and Emile Joubert of Wine Goggle Blog<\/p>\n

Attendees can ask questions, and get to know fellow bloggers.\u00a0\u00a0 Only 20 bookings will be accepted for each meeting, on a first come, first served basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bloggers will be able to experience a pairing of\u00a0the snacks prepared by internationally renowned chef Liam Tomlin, owner of the new Chef’s Warehouse and Cookery School, at 50 New Church Street in town, with the wines brought along by the wine blogging speaker.\u00a0\u00a0 The cost of attendance\u00a0is R 150.\u00a0 Bookings can be made by e-mailing info@whalecottage.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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