Last week was crazy, what with superb tastings and big shows in the Cape Town area. There will be a nice review of the Food & Wine Bloggers Meeting we did with Food24 up on our website this week, once all the reviews are in. The Cabernet tasting we did was very well received with [...]
Uncorked is coming, are you ready?
Make your way to the picturesque Franschhoek Wine Valley, over the weekend of 4 and 5 September, for the unique spring wine meander, Franschhoek Uncorked. This multi-faceted celebration takes place on satellite farms throughout the Valley, and affords award-winning wineries – as well as the smaller hidden gems – the opportunity to ‘bloom’ as they [...]
Bastille Festival This Weekend
Franschhoek’s Bastille Day Festival Celebration is happening again, and because of the winding down of the event that Fifa will not allow me to mention on a public website without paying them for it, we are sure that this year’s festival will be packed to absolute capacity. All the usual fun activities will be taking [...]
Catch Haut Espoir at the Beverley Hills Hotel
Followers of good food and fine wine are in for a treat. The Beverly Hills hotel exclusive gourmet wine evenings are receiving rave reviews. The Plantation Room of the hotel is the venue where one long mahogony table seating only 22 guests offers an exclusive yet interactive wine and food extravaganza. Four exceptional and sublime [...]
Do you Posterous?
Haut Espoir has recently upgraded our daily look into farm life. Whilst our website is now a little more corporate (with Rob and Mom keeping an eye over the new web guy) we still want to offer you a daily look into the farm and what goes on here, and some interesting articles we find [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Social Media
To all the loyal followers of Haut Espoir, you will have to excuse me please while I find my feet again with the internets…coming off a great Cherry Flava Media day, where we learnt all about digital media and had a very ‘intense how to for the SA Wine Industry’ session, my mind is overflowing [...]
Head on Collision outside the farm
Here is a bit of local Franschhoek spice for you, in the early hours Monday night… I didn’t hear a thing, Erica tells me she heard the bang and crash…its left awesome skid marks. Luckily no one was hurt in the making of this blog post…. These shots coming from Garth, literally right outside the [...]
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