Alcohol

Gin is one of those all-seasons drinks. Depending on your additions and garnishes, you can enjoy a refreshing gin pool-side, a pretty floral gin to announce the arrival of spring, or a moody, dark…

As the season of giving, entertaining, indulging and sharing knocks at our door, it’s time to stock up on all our holiday favourites. First of the summer wines, I’m adding a half-dozen bottles of…

Today I’m reminiscing about a wonderful, whirlwind adventure in Namibia last year. As the days are warming up here, announcing the arrival of summer, I can’t help but think back to the heat of…

Can you believe we are almost at the end of October!? In a few short weeks, we’ll hopefully all be on summer holidays, enjoying the longer days and carefree feasting! As I’m slowly starting…

The base of many alcoholic beverages, a cream liqueur is the ultimate indulgence to add to your iced drink or to your hot coffee. But when you find one that is proudly local, makes…

Bonnievale Wines has gone platinum at South Africa’s premier, fine-wine-only competition with two of its wines earning top honours this year. Grabbing the spotlight in the highly contested National Wine Challenge (NWC), which incorporates the list of Top…

While the popular South African Cheese Festival was presented this past weekend for the first time since 2019 as a pop-up festival at Groote Post outside Darling, it is Stellenbosch’s turn this long weekend,…

Come the 1st of May 2022, Die 3 Susters will be hosting a guest popup dining experience at the Langtafel op die Duin in Langebaan. This event will see a carefully curated and prepared…

Over the weekend of Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 April, the historic Groote Post Wine Estate, world-renowned for its award-winning wines, will play host to the first-ever South African Cheese Festival on the West…

A rare bottling of wines made only from harvests of exceptional quality has been released. This is only the second time that the Suikerboschrand Cape Blend and Anna Christina Cap Classique – both part of the…