MY SEA POINT
Posted by ymartiny | Filed under My Sea Point
I often take a walk from Ocean View to Beach, here’s my interpretation of the individuals you encounter while covering very distinct sections of cultures on various levels of wealth, and also the opposite … poverty:
Tags: Beach Road, Cape Town, High Level, Main Road, Ocean View, Sea Point
Steenberg Vineyards, SA’s Luminary
Posted by ymartiny | Filed under Wine Events
2011 GWC Best of Wine Tourism Awards
Steenberg laid the lunch table for the long-awaited South African edition of the 2011 GWC Best of Wine Tourism Awards. A recap? A while back WOSA invited wine lovers and bloggers alike to experiencing the best of what our wine industry has to offer those funny looking people from over the seas. We were split in groups and would then write about said experiences. Through this trail phase they would then see if it would at all be reasonable to incorporate our blogging opinion in the judging of these awards.
Tags: . Waverley Hills Organic Wines, Backsberg, Cape Town, Cape Winelands, David Higgs, Delaire Graff Estate, Delheim, Eat Out Awards, Glen Carlou, Grande Provence Heritage Estate, Great Wine Capitals, GWC, L'Ormarins, Mendoza, Napa Valley, Plaisir de Merle, Rust en Vrede, South Africa, Steenberg, Warwick Wine Estate, Wines of South Africa
A Turk, a Romanian and a pink strip
Posted by ymartiny | Filed under Wine Events
It was an iffy day in Cape Town (it didn’t know iffit was going to rain, or iffit wasn’t) but we decided to go anyway and was pleasantly surprised with the very warm embrace of the restaurant and its people. Anatoli Turkish Restaurant, which is in such a contrast to their bedazzled-leather-stripped and ripped neighbours, occupies a very minute portion of the ‘pink-strip’ and it is here where Nederburg crossed brotherly piss-streams with exotic dishes from middle earth (somewhere close to Russia).
Tags: Anatoli, Cape Town, Nederburg, Queens, restaurant, Whiskey Live Festival
Why you have to climb on the Backsberg Boat
Posted by ymartiny | Filed under Wine@ventures
Great Wine Capitals – Best of Wine Tourism 2011 – Blog Tour
Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices
Because I’m a poephol! Yes, I tweeted our GWC trip details the day before. Not once, but twice. Our visits were suppose to be a surprise and Mr Backsberg was the only one to be ‘on top of the wine bottle’ with his online presence to make sure all was perfect for our arrival.
Tags: Angles, Backsberg, Best of Wine Tourism, Cape Town, Great Wine Capitals, GWC, Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices, Tourism, Wine
Why L’Ormarins got me wet
Posted by ymartiny | Filed under Wine@ventures
Great Wine Capitals – Best of Wine Tourism 2011 – Blog Tour
Architecture, Parks and Gardens | Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences
The farm that reminded me of my youth: Confused! Do we like cars, art, horses, biodiversity, Dutch architecture or wine? What?! Whatever it might be, they have certainly not capped any expense in guaranteeing that they are superior in every regard.
Tags: Architecture, Art, Best of Wine Tourism, Cape Town, Cars, Gardens, Great Wine Capitals, GWC, Horses, Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences, L’Ormarins, Parks, Pierneef, Rodin, Tourism, Wine
Why Plaisir de Merle has a place in my heart
Posted by ymartiny | Filed under Wine@ventures
Great Wine Capitals – Best of Wine Tourism 2011 – Blog Tour
Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences
Jackie welcomed us at the door. Yes, there was someone waiting for us at the door with the biggest most warming and welcoming smile ever. She showed us inside and seated us in the tasting room where odd pieces of vintage furniture were spread across a long and spacious room. An extensive table stretched down the center of the room and demanded everyone’s jaws to drop. The black and red wallpaper at the one end of the room seemed odd and out of place but strangely enough, sprinkled a bit of ‘modern’ over an already ancient interior. Enough, let’s leave this to the interior design queens, back to the farm.
Tags: Best of Wine Tourism, Cape Town, Great Wine Capitals, Gryphon, GWC, Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences, Plaisir de Merle, Tourism, Wine
Why Seidelberg is not PH Balanced
Posted by ymartiny | Filed under Wine@ventures
Great Wine Capitals – Best of Wine Tourism 2011 – Blog Tour
Arts & Culture | Wine Tourism Services
The weather was exactly the same as about a year ago when we visited this farm, and as we drove up through the vineyard I recalled our last encounter and consequently … recoiled. Always the promoter of redemption though, I packed away my prejudice and decided to give them another try.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Wine Tourism, Cape Town, GWC, Seidelberg, Tourism, Wine, Wine Tourism Services
Virgin GWC Blog Tour 2011
Posted by ymartiny | Filed under Wine@ventures
Allow me to be bias, Ynot?! It’s not hard to argue that South Africa has the most versatile and breathtaking winefarms and estates the world has to offer. Not only in terms of the quality of wines they produce but also in terms of their contribution to the environment, business, education, local development, tourism, sustainability, the list is endless. In these ‘modern’ times you cannot afford not to partake and with so many other farms out there it’s always nice to add a tag around your farm’s name that might just distinguish you from the rest or get a few extra pairs of flip flops through the front door to purchase some grapefuel®.
Tags: Cape Town, Great Wine Capitals, GWC, Tourism, Wine
