Protea Cynaroides King Protea Instead of one image today, we have an entire gallery, so please click through the pictures to your right… Apart from being our national flower, and on the chests of our sporting heroes, this is one of my personal favourites on the farm, certainly when flowering this species has the most [...]
Fynbos Friday 2 : The Sour Fig
Continuation of the theme from last week, Fynbos Friday returns this week, on a special day, being Friday the 13th. Things often go pear shaped on a Friday the 13th, there have been numerous reasons to celebrate (birthdays, shiraz showcases, life in general). On top of the celebrations its also been a pretty stressful week [...]
Shiraz SA Tasting 12 November
Shiraz South Africa announces first Shiraz Showcase This thursday, at the CTICC on 12 November 2009, Shiraz SA, the recently formed organization for all producers of Shiraz, are having a very unique tasting, and Haut Espoir are proud to be a part of the experience. Shiraz SA have just announced their presentation of the first [...]
Fynbos Friday 1 – The Wachendorfia
As a part of the new look and feel web presence to Haut Espoir, we are going to focus our biodiversity initiative with a weekly look at something new in Fynbos. First off, maybe we should do a quick recap on what fynbos is. Defined on the Fynbos.co.za web page as: Fynbos is the term [...]
Find us on eWine
What an amazing day out here. The sun is shining, the wind has finally gotten a little tired of doing its best to blow us away and we are looking forward to a weekend filled, to the brim, with amazing sporting duels, stuffed, like any good chicken breast should be, with Semillon, and loads of [...]
Wine Tasting for a great Cause
Tomorrow night, Wednesday the 28th of October, 2009 (I know, almost November already!) will see a fantastic event happening out in Noordhoek, at Rioja Restaurant. They have recently moved venues, so take note of the following, from their website: Rioja Restaurant has moved premises to Solole Game Reserve, Noordhoek. The buffalo are still wandering, springbok [...]
Uncorked memories and the Zinkstilettos
I am having a cracking morning behind the desk, getting the new labels signed off and furiously attempting to crunch as much admin as possible before the big Uncorked weekend coming up. In my mind I am tasting the prawns and shiraz from Lynx right now. And with all the gees that’s building up for [...]
Big Rain Spider welcoming us all to work this morning
So what started out as a pretty pissed off spider, relatively irate as you can see from the stance at being disturbed when I opened up the office this morning.. turned out to be one of the better ‘shoots’ ive had with the insect life on Haut Espoir in a while. I bumped into an [...]
Flowering time for the Serruria has arrived
Its finally opened up, believe it or not with all the cold weather and rain ( we had 65 mms over the weekend), the long awaited arrival of the extremely rare Serruria gracilis has now finally happened. I posted a while ago about this little stunner here, (Big changes since June hey?) So no luck [...]
National Heritage Day is coming up so get your braai ready
October 24th. Is National Heritage and Braai day. Do it. You know you should. Riaan says you should. For those that know me, I have been now to throw a bit of wood on fire from time to time. Some of the best times I have had, have been around a braai. There is so [...]
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