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 [...]
Thank you!
At times, in the middle of a storm, there is a moment where everything will make sense in this crazy world. Little rewards for the hard work we put in on a daily basis. Last night our web guy was alerted to the image attached on this post, which simply put, has us as the [...]
Harvest Preparation
For those of you who know a little more about wine than how to open the bottle and quaff away, you will know that its heading towards harvest time with serious vooma now. To keep you in the loop (and educate the rest of us) I sat down with our wine maker, Nikey, to see [...]
Haut Espoir Rose 2008 Release
When we were approaching our first harvest back in 2004, we were never planning on producing a Rose. In our maiden vintage, we bottled only 800 bottles, most of this was planned for personal consumption, yet very good friends of ours Camil and Ingrid Haas, who owned Klein Oliphants Hoek at the time, currently own [...]
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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 [...]
Its freezing out here in the Hoek
Its officially cold, I am finally in long pants. The Elly has a fine dusting of snow to start the day with. Heavy rain last night, we recorded 60mm, and the snow has completely covered Mont Rochelle Nature Reserve. Im thinking its a hip flask and snow man time!
Cape Universities Square Off in Wine Tasting Intervarsity
Simon from Backsberg has organised what looks to be a great Friday afternoon. I am not too sure what the afternoon has in store for us, a more civilised event than some of the intervarsity days Im used I am sure, lots of great wine and decent wine chit chat to boot. From my hazy [...]
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