Online addresses ending in .wine and .vin are set to be uncorked soon, despite objections from European governments and several wine industry groups. The Internet’s chief regulator has reaffirmed its plan to allow the new…
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#SusanEats: Fantinel Winery hosts exclusive wine-pairing dinner in Ethiopia
Port and cheese are perfect partners? Red wine should always be served at room temperature? There are many myths about wine, some more obvious than others. When it comes to wines in East Africa, especially…
Review: New Zealand’s Oyster Bay wine pairing dinner at Fairmont Norfolk
Food and wine pairings, when done right, brings out the best in aroma and taste. My recent evening at Fairmont Norfolk’s flagship restaurant Tatu celebrated exactly this concept. Together with Oyster Bay New Zealand, famed…
Chinese now drink more red wine than the French
China has overtaken France and Italy to become the world’s number one consumer of red wine, although the United States remains the world’s biggest market for all types of wines. China drank 1.865 billion bottles…
Dining with Sankara’s Head sommelier Lisa Gordge
The Sankara hotel recently indulged us in a gastronomic experience at their famous champagne bar to introduce their new in-house Head sommelier Lisa Gordge. Lisa holds a diploma in wine cum laude from Cape Wine…
Discovering wine: Italy’s cliff vines and sea cellars
From the vineyards clinging to seaside cliffs to a unique cellar of bubbly wine stored on the seabed, the off the beaten track wine region of Liguria in northern Italy offers an array of spectacular…
Young-gun winemakers put South Africa back on map
For decades South Africa has been the promising but slightly uncouth cousin of the wine world, but a new generation of vintners are creating distinctive — and some say world-beating — wines. Quaffed by the…
Rising alcohol levels give wine lovers a headache
Do those New World Cabernets and Zinfandels make your head spin? Fed up with having to stop drinking after just one glass? Plenty of wine lovers around the world will have noticed their favourite tipples…
Madtraxx for Blankets and Wine Kampala III
The third edition of Blankets and Wine Kampala, the premier Afro-based music festival in East Africa designed to showcase genres of Afro fusion music is set to go down on March 31 at the Uganda…