Today we wanted to feature something special. Yes, it’s Christmas tomorrow, but we wanted to share one of our favorite places in Franschhoek who happen to be doing something amazing in a week’s time. Dutch East believe that in simplicity and preserving the integrity of the main ingredient. It easy to cook food that tastes [...]
Haut Espoir Viognier
Keeping up with the tradition to show you some behind the scenes stuff on our wines, we wanted to show off the `08 Viognier today. As summer is in full swing and many an afternoon should be spent around the pool, in the garden or around a picnic basket in the middle of nowhere with [...]
Featured Restaurant: The Grillroom in Franschhoek
“Hangar steak, just have the hangar, with the Petit Verdot. One of the few places who got 500 bottles of the `06 Vintage”. These were the words of encouragement when I went to try out The Grillroom for myself a while ago after having shared a few emails to show off The Grillroom here, on [...]
Haut Espoir Shiraz Rosé
Welcome back to the Haut Espoir wine information series. Once again the aim with today’s post is a bit of background without all the technical stuff. Simply what the difference is and why we do it a little differently. With the Chardonnay we heard about Nikey’s love for wild yeast. Our Rosé is 100% made [...]
Featured Restaurant: Sótano
Sótano is the newest venture from the company who brought us one of our favorite haunts, Caveau. We have featured their restaurants here before and we are a big supporter of their concepts, as their focus lies on quality, rather than quanity. Something we relate to here on the farm, where it forms one of [...]
La Petite Dauphine
To say that this venue is special to us is quite an understatement. The venue is very close to the Armstrong family and today we wanted to show you just a little about this amazing space, here in “The Hoek”. Erica and Rob got married on the farm, shortly after it was purchased and renovated [...]
Haut Espoir Gentle Giant
Continuing in the series from the Shiraz and the Semillon today we are featuring the wine which is the center of our Movember pledge. The Gentle Giant is something that Haut Espoir has become famous for. Something unique and drinkable all night, as Foodie a.k.a David Cope likes to say. Nikey had a concept. It [...]
Haut Espoir Shiraz
The first comment we inevitably get when we have visitors in the cellar and we get to the Shiraz Barrels is: “Wow Rob, how’s the size of that beauty?” Nikey loves Shiraz and does things a little differently here to truly fine tune the product into something very special. Indeed, 500 liter barrels are used [...]
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