Neil Pendock

2014-09-24

Camissa may be Khoi for “sweet waters” but with the exception of Paul Cluver’s Close Encounter Riesling 2012, the wines served with rabbit to the clotted...

2014-09-24

The best wine launch so far this year was the KWV Mentors gig at the Test Kitchen in Woodstock. So when Glen Grant wished to unveil their 50 year old...

2014-09-23

On the eve of National Braai Day The Guardian queers the pitch by blaming braais for the profusion of fatties. Aaron Motsoaledi, minister of health, blames...

2014-09-23

Earlier this year the Australian gourmet press was full of the news that “the Australian wine industry has recruited one of the Queen’s former head chefs...

2014-09-22

Distillers barely had time to down a few drams after sidestepping the bullet in the shape of independence for Scotland than half year sales numbers were...

2014-09-22

The best way to put an end to poaching Rhinos is to farm them, harvest their horns when they depart for the Big Game Reserve in the Sky and flood the...

2014-09-21

The news that SA garagiste winemakers are putting down their spanners and founding a Garagiste Movement at the end of October has to be the best news...

2014-09-21

Your Olly Smith, wine booster for the Daily Mail, is one jammy bastard. His Pick of the Bunch this week includes a South African Chenin Blanc called Cambalala...

2014-09-20

The White Room in Dear Me on Longmarket Street, Cape Town (below), is a little less white these days while the wine service is definitely darker, thanks...

2014-09-19

In this case R&R is not Rock & Roll (and I like it) or even Rest & Relaxation but rather Riesling & Rabbit. And not the 1970s pop band...