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Category Archives: South African Wines
Mastering Food and Wine Pairing at Masters Superfish
This is a wine blog, and I suppose that when I write about a restaurant I concentrate on the wine…and the food too, of course. But this piece isn’t primarily about either, but rather a musing on “lunch” in a … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Champagne, Dining, Loire, Portuguese wine, Restaurants, South African Wines, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged 'T Voetpad 2016, Casablanca Chardonnoir, Chardonnoir Bodegas Re Chile, Dom Perignon 2002, Eben Sadie 'T Voetpad, Fish & Chips and Wine, Fish & Chips in London, Food and Wine Matching, Hortas do Caseirinho Frisante, Masters Superfish Waterloo, Red Vinho Verde, Sadie Family Old Vines Series, Vouvray Pétillant Huet
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Blank Bottle at Butlers – Pieter Walser fills us in.
Blank Bottle Winery was established in an old shack (a hinterhofkabuff, so the “story” goes, see later on) in Somerset West, South Africa, …something like maybe fifteen-or-so years ago, according to legend (bare with me here). I will briefly relate … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, South African Wines, Wine, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged 69.99999 2016 Magnum, A Sigh of Relief 2017 Helderberg Cabernet Franc, B-Bos I 2018, Blank Bottle Offspring, Blank Bottle Ultra 2018, Blank Bottle Winery, But Why? Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon, Butlers Wine Cellar Brighton, Give & Take Pinot Blanc 2017, Hinterhofkabuff 2018, It is What it Is 2016, Jaaa Bru!!! 2017 Blank Bottle Malbec, Kortpad Kaaptoe 2018, Manon des Sources 2010 Blank Bottle, Moment of Silence 2017 Cape Agulhas, Myköffer 2017, Oppie Koppie Blank Bottle Winery, Orbitofrontal Cortex 2018, Pieter Walser, Pinotage 2018 Blank Bottle Winery, Retirement @65 2018 Cinsaut, South African Cinsaut, South African Wine, Stellenbosch Wines, SWIG, Tempranillo Nebbiolo Carignan Blend, Wolf Alaser 2017
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Take a Quick SWiG
Back on 25th September I was at the Out The Box young importers tasting and I promised to put up some notes on what I tried from Swig at the end of last week, following their joint Portfolio tasting with Uncharted Wines. That turned … Continue reading
Posted in Alsace, Natural Wine, South African Wines, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged AA Badenhorst Family Wines, Adi Badenhorst, BK Wines Adelaide Hills, Blank Bottle Wines, Boina Douro, Champagne Collard-Picard, Claus Schneider Baden, Coteaux Champenois Meunier, Emmanuelle Milan, Les Louves 2014, Mathieu Deiss, Out The Box 2018, Pieter Walser, Skin n Bones, SWIG, Swig at the China Exchange 2018, Vignoble du Reveur
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Blank Bottle at Butler’s
I don’t often write about a single wine producer unless I’ve visited them, or at least met the producer at a wine event. I’ve known and enjoyed the wines made in South Africa by Pieter Walser, imported into the UK … Continue reading
Posted in Own Label Wines, South African Wines, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops
Tagged Blank Bottle Winery, Brighton Wine Merchants, Butlers Wine Cellar, Give and Take 2017, It is What it Is 2016, Own Label Wines, Pieter Walser, South African Pinot Blanc, South African Tempranillo Blend, South African Wine, Swig Wines
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