Wine of the Day #63: Allée Bleu, l’Amour Toujours 2007
How much? R140;
Where? Allée Bleue Wines, Franschhoek 27 (0)21 874 1021;
Why? With a name as difficult to pronounce as this one from a producer with pronunciation issues itself, the wine has to sell on quality alone. One of the reasons The Chocolate...
Wine of the Day #62: Paul Cluver Gewürztraminer 2010
How much? R170 @ La Mouette;
Where? Paul Cluver Estate 021 844 0605;
Why? PC winemaker and keen cyclist Andries Burger couldn’t hang around sniffing fannies, pheromones and bicycle seats at last night’s Great Domaines Burgundy tasting at French To...
Magnificent Marieta
National generic wine marketing is in deep trouble. Wine Australia has been shaken by big name defections while a story I ran on Marieta de Beer attracted many enquiries from SA exporters desperate for help shifting stock in overseas markets and confi...
Pheromone Frenzy @ French Toast
Thank heavens the smells of sex do not rise, like hot air, or this evening’s Great Domaines Burgundy tasting would have been more of an olfactory challenge than it already was. For Christian Eedes, former editor of WINE magazine, warned earlier this...
Cuvées for the Chancellor
“Why does SA not sell more wine in the UK” was the question posed by Chris Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, at the start of a day spent tasting in the Winelands yesterday. After ten hours sipping unwooded Chardonnay at Glenelly, a s...
Wine of the Day #61: Constantia Uitsig unwooded Chardonnay 2009
How much? R120;
Where? Constantia Uitsig Restaurant (0)21 794 4480;
Why? Chardonnay struggles in Constantia. The un-irrigated vines at Uitsig are 20 years old and riddled with virus but 2009 was “a special vintage” for winemaker André Rousseau an...
Secateurs bombs in the Speccie
You can’t please all the punters, all the time as Adi Badenhorst found out when the label for his Secateurs Chenin Blanc 2010 was rubbished by Simon Hoggart in the Spectator this week. The real, as opposed to Wine Spectator, that is. Si shared a ma...
Wine of the Day #60: Table Bay Chenin Blanc 2010
How much? R22;
Where? Ultra Liquors (0)21 797-4340;
Why? It must cost around the same to make a bottle of Table Bay Sauvignon Blanc as it does to make a bottle of Table Bay Chenin Blanc yet the latter trades at a 37% discount to the former. An observa...
Wine of the Day #59: Table Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2010
How much? R35;
Where? Ultra Liquors (0)21 797-4340;
Why? While anoraks debate the nobility of the Sauvignon Blanc grape and snobs like the Male & Groaner’s Cock Screwed columnist sounds off against it, wine lovers and lunchers will revel in the ...
