June 2008

A Few Recent Pairings

23 June 2008

Wine with Sushi I’m a huge fan of Austrian white wines – on a typically hot Cape summer’s day there is just nothing better than that gorgeous combination of zesty acidity and rich fruit concentration. While I generally drink red wine with everything, I recently took a bottle of 2004 Hirsh Gaisberg Riesling along to [...]

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The Dark Side of wine branding?

19 June 2008

In September 2007 we launched three new wines (effectively at entry-level) – Daisy Darling, Inkspot and The Dark Side. Each of these wines continues a strategy we started with the release in 2003 of The Cloof Cellar Blend and in 2006 with the launch of The Very Sexy Shiraz. In our view the bottling of [...]

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Taxi!

4 June 2008

I have a thing about taxi drivers – I always seem to find ones with interesting life stories (or perhaps it’s just part of the dynamic of brief encounters between human beings when one of them – the taxi driver – is accustomed to the transience of the transaction). Maybe I’m just receptive to whatever [...]

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