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Tobasco and Oyster and Champagne Festival ; http://www.bloemendalwines.co.za/1bw0601.htm !

2008 Oyster & Champagne Festival
21, 22 & 23 March 2008

With the great success of the 2007 Oyster and Champagne festival, Bloemendal and Tabasco bring you an even bigger and better Oyster and Champagne Festival for 2008. A great time was had by all in 2007, where 10 000 oysters and copious amounts of bubbly were consumed. There were great live bands and Jenny Morris “Giggling Gourmet” demonstrating food and wine pairing on stage. All her dishes were auctioned off for the Reach for a Dream Foundation who raised over R25 000.00 that week-end.

This year’s program:
# 21 & 22 March 2008. . Gates Open at 10h00 15 000 Oysters
# 3 Stages for Live Entertainment
# Celebrity Chef Demonstrations
# Shuck ñ Slurp Competition
# Local Cap Classiques and French Champagne Stalls
# Food Stalls
# Full Bar Facilities
# Kids Entertainment
# Helicopter Flips
# Free Champagne Glass on Arrival
# Limited to 1300 people per day
# R5.00 per Oyster

23 March 2008. Gates Open at 11h00
Brought to you by Vineyard Concerts
# The Greatest local Rock Concert of all Time. (Bands to be announced shortly)
# Oyster Bars and Food Stalls
# Full Bar Facilities
# Local Cap Classiques and French Champagne Stalls
# Kids Entertainment
# Limited to 1200 people
# Picnic Baskets
# R150.00 Unreserved
# Bring your own Picnic Blanket

Advanced bookings for the 21st and 22nd can be done by submitting the following form to us

TABASCO® Oyster and Champagne Festival
7 & 8 April 2007

Popularity: 14% [?]

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This excellent wine and olive farm is a must see, also consider this for a wedding venue. They have a stunning restaurant that is surrounded by glass overlooking the farm and olive hill. There is also a magnificent fireplace at the wine tasting and their olive and wine sales do really well. They also sell a pepper chocolate that you simply have to try.

Situated on the crest of the Hellshoogte pass in Stellenbosch South Africa they have the wine tasting and sales, the olive shed and restaurant.

SAA AIRWAYS 2008 - TOKARA CHARDONNAY 2006

For all our frequent flyers, our TOKARA Chardonnay 2006 has been listed on Business Class flights 2008.  Therefore you can sit back and relax while sipping on fine wine.

The TOKARA Chardonnay 2006 is a well integrated wine with tropical fruits and spice which are complimented with lemons and lime on the nose.  A perfect balance of minerality and buttery accents.  The entry offers broad and generous flavours held in check by a taught, textured and smokey finish.  Hints of peach skin and intelligent use of restrained oak add to the dimensions of this classy wine!

Popularity: 10% [?]

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For all those wine and cheese lovers this is the farm for you. I recently went their with the inlaws and it was a great experience. We couldnt keep my boyfriends dad away from the lovely cheese counter and he was having lunch right there with some chenin chakalaka cheese.

It was really wonderful here and I would recommend this farm to everyone. They had a rooibos cider as well in a beautiful bottle and I suggest you try it.

From their website - www.fairview.co.za !

The home of Fairview wines is a 300ha farm on the south-west-facing slopes of Paarl Mountain, a granite rock outcrop in the heart of the Paarl wine district, viticulturally among the most historic and influential areas of the Cape winelands. Standing among the lavender beds in the terraced front garden of the winery, you’ll look out across rolling fields and see distant flat-topped Table Mountain, a world-famous landmark standing guard over the city of Cape Town, South Africa’s tourist mecca perched on the Cape Peninsula at the southern tip of the African continent.

Winemaking on the farm can be traced back to 1699, not quite a half-century after the first European settlers arrived in southern Africa. But its wines entered the modern era with the first bottling under the Fairview label in 1974 by the Back family, owners since 1937. Today, some three decades later, grandson Charles Back II has brought Fairview wines to world markets. One of South Africa’s pre-eminent vintners, he has earned Fairview a reputation for consistent quality across a range of innovative styles, using both classic and unusual varieties. And he has helped pioneer a modern culture of wine growing in South Africa that embraces typicity of terroir, unrestricted by ‘estate’ appellation, by both developing his own vineyards to their full potential and seeking out new viticultural sites to grow fruit for wines to please popular tastes and discerning palates.

Charles Back’s philosophy is that wine is an integral and joyful part of everyday life. His unbridled enthusiasm, sense of fun and pure pleasure in growing vines, vinifying wine, and presenting it to wine lovers in all manner of exciting guises, pervades Fairview. You sense it when visiting. It’s a busy, happy, humming place. You get to taste and buy a vast array of different styles: from top-end, exclusive, often one-off bottlings through some fine Fairview standards to easy drinkers. An old maturation cellar has been converted into a casual Mediterranean-styled indoor/outdoor eatery called The Goatshed. Included on the menu are Fairview’s own internationally award-winning farmstyle Jersey milk and goats’ milk cheeses. Fairview has a resident herd of 600 goats, some of whose members like to soak up the sun on the Goat Tower in front of the winery, as depicted on Fairview’s wine labels. Their antics have also been immortalised in the irreverently named, premium quality Goats do Roam range of wines.

Popularity: 9% [?]

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Hillcrest Estate just a drop away from Durbanville Hills was my second stop on my visit to Cape Town and I simply loved the olive tasting and the friendly serving of their awesome wine.

I bought one of their bottles there and it was the best dry white wine I have tasted in a long time. The Hillcrest Sauvignon Blanc 2006 !!!

From their Website : http://www.hillcrestfarm.co.za/ !

Hillcrest Estate, nestled in the rocky Tygerberg Hills, Boasts a panoramic view of Table Mountain, Robben Eiland and northwards, along the West Coast. Historically, a stone quarry on the estate supplied material for the construction of Cape Towns roads.

The Farm was and still is head quarters to the engineering company Haw & Inglis. However due to it’s prime location and suitability to olive and wine farming it has slowly transformed into a working farm producing high quality olives, oils and wine.

These Projects have been spearheaded by the original founders and engineers of Haw and Inglis.

Engineers have become farers, a biologist a winemaker and the success of these transformations is proof that with dedication and determination anything is possible.

Popularity: 8% [?]

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Recently on a holiday to Capetown I was lucky enough to go to the Durbanville Hills Wine Farm. Very Close to Blouberg it was a wonderful setting and my first taste of Wine Farms. This was one of my reasons for moving to Capetown, except of course the yummy guy I came down for.

From Their Site - www.durbanvillehills.co.za .

A world class quality wine producerAgainst the background of a 300 year old viticulture heritage and a modern day reputation as one of South Africa’s top three wine districts, seven leading vineyard owners and renowned grape producers created Durbanville Hills together with Distell, the country’s leading and largest wine and spirits purveyor and producer. Our vineyards that supply our fruit, comply with 3 basic and unyielding criteria: Only shareholders provide grapes. Only grapes grown in the limited appellation of Durbanville are cellared. Only fruit grown under constant and scientifically enforced viticulture practises are used in our wines.

Popularity: 9% [?]

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