You know the scene. You slide onto a cool barstool, catch the bartender’s eye, and order a martini. Then it comes. The question. The one that has launched a thousand Bond impersonations: “Shaken or stirred?” It’s the cocktail equivalent of “Paper or plastic?” But let’s be real, do most of us really know why we pick one…
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A red blend that’s for everyone
In the mid-1990s Hennie, Bussell, Phillip and Neil Retief – famously known as the Four Cousins – joined the family business and today run the company side by side, having made it South Africa’s leading family-owned winery. From the cousins in the Cape to my rack in Joburg came the Retief Reserve, another brand under…
A night with Hawksmoor wines
Set on one of the busiest roads in Johannesburg, witkoppen, is a quaint beach bar with personality galore! The greenhouse was the home for this wine tasting with Hawksmoor wines. Earlier that day, I met up with a friend that I hadn’t seen in 2 years. Our brunch turned into an afternoon break and wine…
A guide to champagne glasses
So we just missed champagne day and I have posted so much about wine glasses that I realised that I never posted anything about champagne flutes. As an fyi, you know all the sparkling wine and mcc produced anywhere else but in Champagne in France cannot be called champagne and since like a million wine…
The Wine Decanting Myth
Let’s first start with the definition of decant, which Google so amazingly laid out: Why do we need to decant? Not every wine needs decanting. Many of us associate decanting with older vintage port wines or aged Bordeaux – wines that throw off a lot of sediment as they age. Decanting separates the wine from…
Its Lady Vera 