Distell… @ScottishLeader partners with @VernacbyDennis in new video highlighting the brand’s #NewPerspective tagline: http://bit.ly/2njcJk5. 29 Mar 201729 Mar 2017 Media release: SCOTTISH LEADER SHOWS A NEW PERSPECTIVE WITH DENNIS CHUENE “Where I grew up, we called it the mshana bag. But across the continent of Africa, the bag has…
Cocktails… World Class 2017 – Cape Town Regionals 12 Mar 201712 Mar 2017 Dylan sang of the times that are changing. Thank goodness they have. 20 or 30 years ago if a high school student in South Africa said his calling was a…
Hotels The President Hotel in Bantry Bay – The Atlantic Seaboard’s favourite lady. 12 Mar 201712 Mar 2017 They say the more things change, the more they stay the same. To that, I add: the better they get. The President Hotel in Bantry Bay is an example…
Cocktails… Diageo’s World Class Cocktails – regional finals. 7 Mar 20177 Mar 2017 It's that time of year when the best bartenders in South Africa experience nerves, stress, anxiety and a chance at glory: the opportunity to be crowned as South Africa's best…
Brandy… UITKYK RELEASES 10-YEAR-OLD GRAND RESERVE POTSTILL ESTATE BRANDY 28 Feb 201728 Feb 2017 UITKYK RELEASES 10-YEAR-OLD GRAND RESERVE POTSTILL ESTATE BRANDY South Africa, Stellenbosch; ELEGANT and complex, the latest release Uitkyk 10-Year-Old Grand Reserve potstill brandy is a beautiful rendition of a true…
Scotland… A peated Glenlivet – the Nadurra Peated 28 Feb 201712 Mar 2017 Peat and Glenlivet are not words you would use in the same sentence. Except to say, perhaps, that The Glenlivet whiskies are on the very gentle (if any) level of the…
Cognac The morning after the Oscars: a story about Louis XIII Cognac and a movie you’ll never see. 27 Feb 20172 Mar 2017 The morning after the Oscars is a good a time as any to post a story about a movie that anybody over 18 and alive today will never see.…
Brandy… Not a normal Tuesday afternoon: Lunch at The Test Kitchen with Brandy SA 20 Feb 201720 Feb 2017 I’ve allowed this article to mature, not like a fine brandy in oak, but in my mind. I hoped that mellowing for a few months would help me use words…
Food… The Dark Room at The Test Kitchen 19 Feb 2017 Press release from Manley Communications WELCOME TO THE DARK ROOM THE TEST KITCHEN has been reinvented. The new design consists of a Dark Room and a Light Room and is…
Events… Whisky Live Festival – Dates for SA 2017 17 Feb 2017 The stylish, boutique Whisky Live Celebrations open doors from 6 – 8 April 2017 in Cape Town at The Lookout on the V&A Waterfront, from 4 – 6 May 2017…