Diemersfontein Wine and Country Estate has belonged to the Sonnenberg family since the 1940s. David's grandfather bought the 183ha farm in the shadow of the Hawekwa Mountains with a panoramic view of Du Toit's Kloof and Bain's Kloof.
From the stoep of the gabled Groot Huis, blue gums rustling in a hot summer breeze framed my view of the sweeping gardens, paddocks, dam and distant Paarl. The perfect breakfast spot.
Yet another week passes and the Cape Doctor keeps pumping with no windless day in site.
With constant wind hitting the Cape and outside being unpleasant, our area has a lot of other things to do like drinking great wines and eating great food. So, instead of feeling sorry for yourself why not pick up a great bottle of wine a few ingredients and create a great day in full of food, wine and friends?
This last week, I have been to a few wine tastings and I have had a great opportunity to taste many good wines along with good food and I have met some great people in the industry. You would generally think that going to a few wine tastings, one would have a lot more to write about, but nothing really caught my attention.
Don't get me wrong; they were great wines.
Once again, I have to thank my father for introducing a great wine to me. He has the weekends to find and taste new wines, which inevitably get passed on to me at some stage.
The wine this week which really caught my taste buds was the Thokozani 2011 Red Blend from Diemersfontein in Wellington.
Simphiwe Shibambu, 25 year old bass baritone from Johannesburg, last night won the R 10,000 First Prize in the Amazwi Omzansi Africa 2013 Singing Competition.
Pinotage party season kicks off on Saturday 1 September with the first of three installations of Pinotage on Tap: a free-flowing celebration of the latest vintage release of the original coffee-chocolate wine from Wellington’s Diemersfontein.
It’s voluptuous, vivacious and velvety; and its annual vintage release is the reason that thousands trek to their regional capitals for the Pinotage party to end them all. The Original Coffee Chocolate Pinotage wine is about to be unveiled for vintage 2012 at Pinotage on Tap, taking place in Cape Town at Diemersfontein in Wellington on Saturday 13 October.
It’s voluptuous, vivacious and velvety; and its annual vintage release is the reason that thousands trek to their regional capitals for the Pinotage party to end them all. The Original Coffee Chocolate Pinotage wine from Diemersfontein is about to be unveiled for vintage 2012 at Pinotage on Tap, taking place in Lanseria at the Forest Camp, Cradle of Humankind Restaurant on 15 September.
It’s voluptuous, vivacious and velvety; and its annual vintage release is the reason that thousands trek to their regional capitals for the Pinotage party to end them all. The Original Coffee Chocolate Pinotage wine from Diemersfontein is about to be unveiled for vintage 2012 at Pinotage on Tap, kicking off on 1 September at Litchi Orchard in Salt Rock, Durban.
Wine lovers still deciding whether to attend the Wellington Wine Harvest Festival have an added incentive this year: Whites on Tap at Diemersfontein; an intimate, family-friendly event from the folk who devised the über-popular Pinotage on Tap.
Set to take place on one of the two Wellington Wine Harvest Festival days, Saturday 17 March, at Diemersfontein Wine & Country Estate, Whites on Tap will feature the award-winning range of Diemersfontein white wines: the Carpe Diem Chenin Blanc and Viognier, and the Thokozani White Blend.
Pinotage on Tap – significantly typifies a festival at which pinotage lovers celebrate the Original Coffee Pinotage produced by Diemersfontein wines - and their favourite wine is quite literally "on tap".
