The 45th edition of South Africa’s original and still favourite wine adviser, Platter’s Guide, is here, with an elegant blue-green cover-colour that speaks of South Africa’s vineyards’ unique location between two oceans. The guide’s founders, journalists and winelovers John and Erica Platter, in the late 1970s were inspired by Hugh Johnson’s pioneering Pocket Wine Book to compile a local version, […]
The S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy has crowned chef Luckson Mare from The Living Room at Summerhill Guest Estate in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal as the winner of the competition’s Regional Final for the Africa, Middle East & South Asia region. Mare earned the title after an exciting two-day cook-off held on the 18th and 19th of November 2024 at Atlantic Studios in […]
The winners of the 2024 Diners Club Winemaker and Young Winemaker of the Year awards were announced at a black-tie gala dinner at the Five Star Arabella Hotel & Spa on Saturday, 23 November, with Kiara Scott Farmer and Mika Engelbrecht claiming top trophy honours respectively. Diners Club introduced the Winemaker of the Year award to encourage local winemakers to […]
Ghost Corner Sauvignon Blanc 2019 is a wine that is bursting with stories, from both myside and the wine itself. Don’t you just love it when a wine has a good story to tell? I know I do and I’m so stocked to share my story with you. You see my darling wine loving friends, we go back to 2020, […]