The title of this article should actually read ‘How To Eat Olives With Pits’ because pit is the correct term, not pip. Olives with the pits removed are called ‘pitted olives’.

Shinjiro Torii opened the first Japanese whisky distillery in Yamazaki, an area between Kyoto and Osaka, in 1923.

CHAMPAGNE has lost its fizz when it comes to weddings with Prosecco now the most popular tipple for toasting the bride and groom, a study found.

A mother is going blind due to her Red Bull habit, which saw her drink 28 cans of the stuff every day.

With a record 291 entries received for this year’s Novare Terroir Awards, the Franschhoek Vignernons came out tops in both the National as well as Area categories.

Looking for a great winter getaway that is steeped in history to take that someone special? Laborie, one of South Africa’s oldest wine farms is running a great two for the price of one winter warmer special.

Vinimark and Wine Worx held their annual trade wine show on Monday evening at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. They have a superb list of French champagnes and distribute some of the bes

Had to go to Wikipedia to learn about Taqueria’s:  “Taquería (pronounced: [takeɾ’ia]) is a Spanish word meaning taco shop or place that makes tacos.  As tacos are an inte

Imagine standing on a beautiful vineyard, surrounded by majestic mountains and feeling part of an exhilarating historical journey. This was my noon time welcome at Catharina’s at Steenberg on

Mullineux & Leeu Family Wines launched their new Solera-style Straw Wine recently.  The wine is the accumulation of 7 vintages (from 2008 to 2014):  Each vintage a barrel or two have been

My post on Cruxland, the new all-singing, all-dancing sipping gin from KWV was such an internet hit (3000 page views in two days) I thought I'd bets stick with spirits and write about Demant brandy in

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Rare Kalahari N’abbas (truffles) have made their way into a newly launched, locally produced boutique gin.

Results of the inaugural RisCura Red Hot Wine Awards featuring Bordeaux-style red blends are now out. 85 entries from 64 producers were received and these were tasted blind (labels out of site) by the

Saturday, 22 August 2015, Cape Town Club A Masterclass of rare wines sold as magnums at past Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auctions will be one of the highlights of this year’s Big Bottle Festi

Scoring wines is a funny business altogether, of course. In a recent spat over the bizarre practice of the great and good assembling in Bordeaux each spring to score Bordeaux wines, some of which have

After the success of its April tuition programmes, the Stellenbosch University (SU) Centre for Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education (SUNCEP) trained [Category: Breaking News, Education, Overberg, Stel

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I still remember tasting this dish of Nic’s grandmother which appeared in the first series of the hugely popular KykNet cooking show Kokkedoor. He cooked it out in the winelands for an evening o

?Wine is bottled poetry.?