Swirl!: Wine Tasting Journals

Monday, October 3, 2011

October Newsletter

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Thank you for letting us in, here is this month's newsletter!

Wine Tasting Journals

Our newest client is featured above - Kanonkop Wine Estate. This elegantly designed pocket journal is ideal for your Christmas corporate gifting, adding value to your tasting room or wine event. Season is just around the corner and for a detailed quotation email us ... here

News

Diners Club Wine List of the Year 2011

Updated October 1, 2010 : Congratulations to all the restaurants that participated this year with a 30% increase in entrants. Here are the nationwide winners for these awards ... here

Patience - Ashbourne 2010

One of the most enjoyable winter activities on a wine estate is tasting through the various components of a blend from the barrel, discussing the possibilities, trying them, confirming them and then making up the blend … here

Wine Swirl

Kanonkop ‘Kadette’ Pinotage Rosé

We are still in that in-between stage of seasons where if you are a red wine drinker, some reds are just too heavy and you don't feel like sipping on white wine just yet. This is the perfect easy drinking wine made from Pinotage, which is a full bodied wine with more onion skin colour rather than red/pink. Typical Pinotage floral aromas with prominent red fruit flavours, more at kanonkop.co.za

Style Pairing

Seafood Salad Tacos with Tomato, Radish and Habanero

First up, one my favourite quick meals from Everyday Mexican by Rick Bayless: Seafood Salad Tacos with Tomato, Radish and Habanero. It’s probably the easiest taco recipe this side of opening up a packet of “Mexican” seasoning, but it's healthier and tastier and matches the Rosé wine because of the simplicity of the dish and the full recipe can be found on ... here

Reviews

You are welcome to forward your new vintage release(s) wine specification sheet and tasting notes for review or send us a sample to taste, and we’ll get the message out there through our blog page Swirl!, our website and social networks! Many thanks to all our new and current subscribers! Remember to ‘like’ our page, located on our site on the bottom navigation bar.

Heaps of Swirls!

Nikki Dumas

Monday, September 5, 2011

September Newsletter

Thank you for letting us in, here is this month's newsletter!

Wine Tasting Journals

Season is just around the corner, so take advantage of a five percent discount offer on our wine tasting journals. This elegantly designed pocket journal is ideal for your Christmas corporate gifting, adding value to your tasting room or wine event. For a detailed quotation email us here ...

News

100 Women - 100 Wines

What do thirty wine women get up to on Woman’s day? Why we drink wine of course! A group of us were invited to a pre selection-judging day for Clare McKeon of spill.co.za - 100 women – 100 wines competition. Read about all the fun we had here ...

Best of Wine Tourism Awards - South Africa

The invitation from The Great Wine Capitals Global Network to participate in the Great Wine Capitals Best of Wine Tourism Tour came as a welcome surprise in my inbox. This was our trip ...

Wine Swirl

Warwick ‘The First Lady’ 2009

We are in that in-between stage of seasons where if you are a red wine drinker, some reds are just too heavy and you don't feel like sipping on white wine just yet. This is the perfect easy drinking wine made from Cabernet Sauvignon which has all the those delicious berry fruit flavours and the colour to match from Warwick Wine.

Style Pairing

Warm Beetroot, Pomegranate and Feta Salad

We found this fabulous recipe prepared by Sophie Grigson from Market Kitchen, daughter of legendary food writer Jane, Sophie Grigson has become a best-selling cookery writer and household name in her own right. We felt that that this recipe is best paired with the Warwick “The First Lady’ wine because of the simplicity of the dish and the full recipe can be found on here ...