A change of direction at Zonnebloem, the prodigal sun of liquor giant Distell. From Norman Goodfellow’s the best XXL offer since Tuesday when Aussie senator Jacqui Lambie, single for 11 years, asked what she looked for in a man, told listeners on a radio station Down Under “they must have heaps of cash and they’ve got to have a package between their legs, let’s be honest.”
A budding suitor, 22-year old Jamie, called into the station, where Lambie, who will grill some of Australia’s most powerful figures in Senate hearings over the next six years, gave him a brief interrogation. Lambie asked if he was rich. “I’m just a bit concerned that at 22 years old and living in Tasmania, you might not be there yet,” she said.
Jamie assured her he had inherited a small fortune.
Could he handle the demands of dating a powerful 43-year-old woman? “I’ve been about a fair bit, ay,” Jamie said. “Are you well hung?” the federal senator for Tasmania asked. “Like a donkey,” Jamie replied.
Which puts the prudish hysteria about Brett Murray’s painting of the president, Spear of the Nation, into perspective. Norman has five magnums on special like
We had the 2011 with panzerotti at Leon @ CCXIX in Woodstock today at the most innovative wine event of the year to date. It’s a decade younger and at R95 a bottle, only R4 cheaper for half the volume. Which makes the 2002 from Norman a gimme as the current release has so much new oak, it would be a sin to drink until 2020.
The current release 2012 Pinotage is a better bet than the 2001. It’s not the R63 retail price, but rather there was a change of style from the old leathery dikvoet recipe beloved of safari suit seuns thanks to the efforts of Bonny van Niekerk (above). This one is super slick and juicy and is great with a cured meat platter from Richard Bosman.
The whole brand has obviously had a sea change of direction. Hiring uber-designer Haldane Martin (below) to conceptualize and fabricate a special wine table for restaurant service was a master stroke. Makes you want to open a restaurant purely to get one. Although the 2012 Pinotage is certainly worth buying on its own merits.
