Category: Events

The purpose of the Classic Wine Trophy competition is to see what French wine judges think of South African wines. The competition not only gives local producers valuable feedback regarding their standing on the international stage, but it gives SA wines great exposure overseas through these very influential wine personalities that come here to taste,…

I get invited to a lot of events. Some are great, some are ok and some are not great. But very few are amazing. I think the last amazing event I went to was the launch of Olmeca Altos. The launch of the Woolworths Flavour Society was one of the amazing events. The point of…

The Christian Eedes Top 10’s are the crème de la crème of the variety in South Africa. The competition is by invitation only. He selects top performers from other well known wine competitions and fills the balance of the 60 entries with wines which he feels should be considered. The 3 judges spend a day blind…

Here is this season’s schedule for the kirstenbosch concert series. Below that is useful info regarding tickets etc. Also note that the price in bracket is the full price, there are discounts for Botanical Society members and also for people under 22 years of age (ID required).   24-Nov-13 – Prime Circle (R120) 01-Dec-13 –…

You probably recognise the stickers in the picture on the right, but might not know much about them. They are Veritas award stickers (double gold in this case). The Veritas awards are the longest running and most prestigious wine awards in South Africa. This year was the 23rd year of the awards which are run…

This was the first year I was able to attend the SA Olive  Awards ceremony, I’d missed the previous one due to prior arrangements. However I heard that the awards this year were a vast improvement on previous years so I don’t think I missed much. This year’s event was held at Kronenburg function venue…

If Cape Town and surrounds doesn’t have some sort of Guinness world record for most wine festivals in one area, then it should. If there was a comprehensive listing of wine events (which there obviously isn’t otherwise we wouldn’t have the clashes we have) there would probably be more than one every week. It’s not…

I attend a lot of events, and few stand out for being interesting and different. The launch of Olmeca Altos tequila was one of those events. These days I need something more interesting to make an event stand out. The old formula of music + food + booze + people = event just doesn’t cut…