This is just the coolest side table, ever.
Now, no matter how much wine you have, your clumsiness won’t spoil the carpet! (or waste your wine).
Check out all the pics. And hi other products too.
Source: steuartpadwick.co.uk
The Daily Maverick :: Real Time Wine, a cut-the-crap wine guide
Good article. But the wine reviews were the best!
“Tastes like turps. A particularly young vintage. The turps that is. SCORE 1/10” - 2007 Glen Carlou Tortoise Hill Red
“Like a menthol ashtray. Prob a reason the word ‘bin’ is in the title. 2/10.” - 2009 Odd Bin Shiraz Mourvedre Viognier
“I think the first review I did said ‘Landskroon Shiraz, 2007. Kak. 1/10.’ The first couple that I did were really lame,” Andy Hadfield of www.realtimewine.co.za/
Great wine packaging! I wonder if the contents are just as good. Anyone tried this?
Source: lovelypackage.com
Mustache Bottle Opener / Corkscrew
What a cool product. I think I want one.
Source: 9gag
What a pleasant mix-up!
I was wondering why my itemised billing printout from Vodacom was nearly a centimetre thick. Surely the 2 cellphone-carrying members of my family didn’t make so many calls?
Luckily, on closer inspection I discovered that Vodacom had inserted someone else’s invoice and statement into mine. I new this would be easy to sort out as their name and mobile phone numbers will be on the printouts. So I called and left a message and a short while later a certain Mr Olivier had called back to arrange the handover of his account. As we were going out anyway, and not to far from his house, I offered to drop them off.
After his front door was already closed I realised this was THE Michael Olivier - the food and wine guru. The guy you see in magazine articles and at all the right functions. What I wasn’t expecting was a bottle of 2006 Kloovenburg Cabernet Sauvignon and a copy of his latest book as thanks! Totally unexpected!
So, not only was the bottle of wine a perfect addition to an extended family Sunday lunch, but I have a story to tell, a book on wines to peruse and a positive memory of a rather generous Micheal Olivier.
You can follow him here on Twitter and here (www.MichaelOlivier.co.za)
Now, all I need to do is lay my hands on more of that rather good Kloovenburg. Actually, I wouldn’t mind trying their Merlot too.
Now why didn’t I think of this? Bummer if you feel like a 2nd glass on your picnic!
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Amazing Wine Labels: 30 Creative and Unique Wine Label Designs
I love the “USB Port” as well as the Boarding Pass. Oh, and the Garage Winery, and the Honeymoon, and, and…
Amazing Wine Labels: 30 Creative and Unique Wine Label Designs
Source: thecoolist.com
Coffee, Pinotage? Coffee Pinotage!
This post may read like a product endorsement. It is.
Tonight some kind person thrust a glass of Barista Pinotage into my hand. I put up little resistance (read: begged). My first glass of the night was, red, unknown. Not bad, but blurred into the mental archives labelled: unmemorable. This 2nd glass of Pinotage though was, well, blog-worthy.
If you’ve not had the pleasure of sampling a Diemersfontein Pinotage you’ve still got some wine sampling to do. The first time I had a glass (or 3) of this much fabled “coffee” wine was a cold winter’s evening at a good friend’s house and a slab of Lindt 80%. If the thought of eating (dark) chocolate with wine doesn’t grab you, I’m not surprised. I was blown away. Those deep chocolate flavours in that Pinotage are teased out by the Lindt. The wine snobs seem to pooh-pooh the idea - and I have previously fought back (see comments)
Meanwhile, back to the Barista Pinotage I had tonight. Apparently it was hand-crafted by the same wine-maker, Bertus “Starbucks” Fourie, who cooked up the original coffee Diemersfontein Pinotage. And boy has he upped his game (IMHO). It’s a rich, strong flavourful blend with a delicious chocolate aroma and after-taste. Judging by my “Platteresque” poetic post, the alcohol levels were on the high side too. Yum.
