• Travel Review: Experiencing the Delightful Franschhoek Wine Tram

    29 January 2017 - By 

    Please note: Tour information and pricing may have changed but the experience is still accurately portrayed in this review. This past Saturday, I had the enormous pleasure of experiencing the Blue Line of the Franschhoek Wine Tram. Like their other lines (of which there are several), it allows passengers the chance to select a maximum of five to six (out of eight) Franschhoek wine farms to hop-on, hop-off at. It had been over three years since I last travelled to that beautiful part of the country – undoubtedly one of my ultimate favourites, aside from Cape Town and the False…

  • Event Review: A Fine Wine Experience in the Heart of the Mother City – Vinimark WineWorx Wine Trade Fair 2015

    12 August 2015 - By 

    On Tuesday the 4th of August, I had the pleasure of attending the 2015 Vinimark Trade and Media Wine Trade Fair at the Mother City’s ultramodern CTICC by special invite as one of the media. Although I have visited and been wine-tasting on some of South Africa’s most beautiful, notable wine estates and wine cellars over the past few years, most especially last year, (including, to name but a few: Boschendal, Nederburg, Tokara, Fairview, Van Loveren, Zorgvliet and Zandvliet – the last of which was one of the 40-plus prestigious, time-honoured and well-represented estates at this year’s Vinimark Wine Fair)…