Wet and Wild

Recently I must admit to being slack at posting, however like most people out there Facebook has kept me busy seeing who is dating who and reading ever intimate details about everyone I have ever met even just for a second.

However not all is lost as on our Stormhoek Facebook group I received a message from a fab lady that works for SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds) asking if we could sponsor some wine for a charity auction and help raise awareness for their cause. Yes was the obvious answer as I am an avid fan of the local Jackass penguins, and no they have nothing to do with the crazy American TV show.

SANCCOB was officially started in 1967 by Althea Westphal and the charities main aim is to conserve and protect the local Jackass penguin population as well as South Africa's many other sea birds. They have so far helped to treat more than 83 000 sick, injured, orphaned and oiled sea birds throughout the last 4 decades.

The above picture is SANNCOB's most recent advert designed to help raise awareness for the cause, and features famous SA model Kerry McGregor and a few equally sexy (although maybe not so good smelling) penguins. Over the next year the ad will be altered to feature a ton of other famous SA models and celebs volunteering their time to help the little fellas out.

At present the current population of SA penguins is about 10% of what it was at the turn of the 20th Century and continues to drop by around 2% every year meaning that the Jackass penguins are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the world wildlife governing bodies.

Without help it is likely there will be no more African penguins left in the wild within the near future so please visit SANNCOB's website and either make a donation or even better adopt your very own penguin (you will even get a goody bag and proper certificate of adoption) .

To adopt a penguin please go to http://www.sanccob.co.za/ or click here, it only cost R500 (approx £35, or $70) and you can sleep well knowing that you have helped save the threatened life of a cute fluffy penguin.

Stormhoek Couture

Nice promo video for our new concept drink called Couture.
Developed over the last two year from pure Stormhoek Cabernet Sauvignon grapes it’s the first wine to be designed to drink over ice. Currently it’s available in the UK at all Threshers stores and at select bottle stores across South Africa.
Couture also works great as a cocktail mixer and at the moment we are busy sorting out a cocktail list that we will update and publish on our blog at www.stormhoek.com and on our Face Book page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2388408693
If you find a cocktail that works well with it please send me an email and if you’re in South Africa and the cocktail works, I will send you a bottle for your hard effort (will limit it so if your reading this post and its 2010 unlucky, but enjoy the world cup!)

For more details and to find your nearest stockist please feel free to email me at chris@stormhoek.com

Cheers,

Chris

Stormhoek now on Facebook

A little while ago I added a fab Stormhoek wine group on Facebook. At the moment we are going to use it as a place for you and us to add any fun Stormhoek pictures/comments and let everyone know about any new promotions or fun stuff we are doing around the world.

At present we have around 150 members, including Stormhoek celebrity Hugh MacLeod and other fantastic people like Steve Clayton from Microsoft as well as local SA social media expert Dave Duarte.

Anyone can join and I'm sure we will use it for some great things in the near future, so if you, like a lot of my friends find that Facebook can be slightly addictive, then why not join and spend another couple of hours not working and come have a look at what fun things were up to.

To find it either log on to Facebook and do a search for Stormhoek or just click on this link !

Cheers

27 Dinner v6 goes down a Storm(hoek)

Last night saw in another great 27 dinner eve, complete with lots of Stormhoek social lubricant.

For those few that don't already know what the 27 dinners are about, its basically a social gathering of South Africa's greatest entrepreneurial minds, and a chance for them to network, listen to informative speeches, socialise, have a good time and drink Stormhoek etc.(for more info go to the 27 dinner wiki)

Last night as you can see from the pictures above, we had a huge turnout and the kind folks from Charly's bakery even gave us all free tasty cup cakes complete with the names of relevant companies iced on the top of the cakes (see the Stormhoek pic above). Not only that but Wine Magazine handed out copies of the best wine mag in the world (yes I'm biased), Zoopy gave away a sony camcorder and offered up 3 video ipods for people that post the most pics on their site, and Stormhoek let everyone present be amongst the first in the world to try out our pre-release new drink concept called Couture.

Their was an interesting talk done by a new company called Yeigo who have a great new application made for mobile phones that allows you to make cheap calls, chat and send SMSs to anyone, anywhere in the world quickly and easily, and is compatible with GoogleTalk, MSN, Yahoo, skype etc. For more info go to their nice website.

All in all another fab eve and big shout out to Sir Dave Duarte for pulling it off in style yet again. Also big love to the Cape Town Hotel School for hosting the venue. See you at the next one.

Cheers

Stormhoek Inner circle bookclub

A while ago my girlfriend told me she was invited to join a book club, now I as a regular guy I thought this would involve reading a book every month and then commenting on it at a meeting once a month or so.

How I was wrong! I should have realised from the first time Ceri went to one of the meetings and came back home at 3am spelling like a brewery that something was fishy, but alas I had no idea to what was coming.

Recently after meeting some of the book party animals at a club they realised I worked for Stormhoek wines. I was then asked whether the next Inner Circle (the name of the book club) could be held at my house with a Cheese and Wine tasting theme (emphasis on the wine). I agreed and the results were stunning.

The evening kicked off at about 8pm and after most of the people arrived I was asked to kindly leave my own house and then only return later when they wanted me to do the wine tasting! At about 9.30 I was summoned and began the tasting. I took the already tipsy bunch through the core Stormhoek range (Sauv Blanc, Pino Grigio, Pinotage, Shiraz, Assassin and Rose) and explained the basic differences of the wine and how Stormhoek is the best wine farm in the world, the latter they already knew of course! Some interesting discussion was had and I must thank Lara (another Inner Circle member) from Tempel wines who also helped in the educating experience.

After the tasting I was kindly asked to leave again so I cant tell you what went on, however I do remember hearing lots of laughter and girly screams so my guess is as good as yours!

The party, I mean book club finished finally at about 1am (on a Thursday!), predictably all the wine was gone but surprisingly the house was still in one piece.

I have been told that the next Inner circle book club is going to also be themed, this time the theme is "sex book club" !!!!!!! (no comment I'm just glad its not at mine again)

I have provided a picture above of the Inner Circle book club members. From left to right starting at the top is Sam, Lara, Shirley, Ceri, dean then Tash, Krista, Mbali, Tracey and Cindy.

We have been having a few chats to see if we should sponsor some more local book club Stormhoek wine tasting. If your keen or have any ideas please drop me a mail at chris@stormhoek.co.za and will see what we can do.

Cheers

Stormhoek UK promo

Recently in the UK Stormhoek began stocking our Pinotage and Sauvignon blanc with the supermarket giants Tesco. For the next two weeks at select stores accross the UK the above wines will be available at £3.99 compared to the normal price in Tesco of £4.99 and to celebrate the campaign the legend of a man that is Hugh Macleod just put a post up on the Stormhoek blog offering the following :

• A case of Stormhoek [6 bottles] to the first six people who send in a photo of themselves in Tesco's with a bottle of Stormhoek [on condition that you're over 18 years old, of course].
  


• First 500 people, aged 18 or over, who sent in a pic of themselves in Tesco, holding a bottle of Stormhoek, will receive a £5.00 Tesco voucher on us.

As usual with any of the promotions we run you do not have to buy a bottle of our fine wine (although that would be fab) and you can feel free to spend the £5 voucher on anything you like, so get to Tesco now and take a picture, all you need to to is send the picture and story to gapingvoid@gmail.com.

Please feel free to blog about it and post the pictures to your Flickr account etc.

Cheers,

Chris

Cherrypicka

This week we (Stormhoek) have finally teamed up with the legend Jon Cherry, owner of the Cherryflava Media empire, to offer you the chance to try out our new 2007 Sauvignon Blanc pre-release.

The offer is limited to 102 bottles on a first come first serve basis and each one will come complete with a custom label with your name, bottle number and date bottled, all just for you.

This offer is exclusive to Cherrypicka, the first SA site that allows you to become"a cash test dummy". The idea behind the site is to allow people to try out great products that tickle your fancy at a reduced price, in return, after you have received your product they hope you will leave a review of it on the website.

Stormhoek Sauvignon blanc 2007 will be released soon in South Africa, however for anyone that goes to Cherrypicka you can get this one off pre-release customised bottle now sent to your door for only R20! to try it out just click here on Cherrypicka.

Enjoy it and if you have any questions please feel free to comment or email me at chris@stormhoek.co.za

Cheers

Couture by Stormhoek

Yes us crazy guys at Stormhoek have been at our product too much again and will be releasing a brand new type of wine that has never before been tried!!!

The new wine called " Couture by Stormhoek " is a special version of our Rose wine made up of Pinotage, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon and is designed to be drank on its own with lots of ice or used as a mixer for cocktails and the like.
The guys and girls over at wine.co.za cracked the story and full details can be found on their site.

The wine will be Launched at Taste London 2007, which takes place from the 21-24th June in Regent’s Park. If you decide to go you will be able to taste Couture, at an Interactive Ice Bar filled with huge blocks of multi-coloured ice, complete with a mixologist (fancy word for a pro barman) serving Couture in its four guises: wine glass, tumbler, martini glass and champagne flute.
Release dates for the rest of the world have yet to be confirmed but when I have more info will let you know.

Cheers

Chris

CaffeNeo

For anyone visiting or living in Cape Town and wanting free wireless Internet, great coffee and food complete with a sea view, then CaffeNeo is the place to be.

Situated on Beach road in Mouille point overlooking the Atlantic ocean and a classic lighthouse, CaffeNeo starts the day offering great traditional breakfasts ranging from full fry ups to tasty croissants, and then goes on to offer fabulous Greek cuisine in a deli format amoungst other succulent dishes, all complete with tasty deserts such as Baklava.

Stormhoek have teamed up with Neo and now offer our Pinotage, Sauvignon blanc and Pino Grigio, available by the glass or bottle, and have given them an exclusive limited edition case of Stormhoek big love promo business cards fresh from the UK with a Hugh Macloed cartoon on the back. There are 3 to collect and will be placed all the tables, no purchase is necessary however in the interests of my pay check I would very much appreciate it if you have a glass or bottle of our wine while your there !

To contact CaffeNeo please call 021 433 0849

Cheers

Chris

Vin Au Verre !

The french have been at the bottle again and have come up with something useful for a change unlike frog legs, snails and unreliable car brands!

The above gadget is made by a company called Eurocave, who by chance also happened to be the worlds first manufacturer of air conditioned wine cabinets way back in 1976.
Since the company started they seem to have gone from strength to strength and now produce a wide range of wine storage systems for lovers of wine all over the world. The above image shows their latest addition called the Vin Au Verre (wine by the glass).

The device can keep 8 bottles (4 reds and 4 whites) ready to serve via the easy pour taps on the front, and store an additional 8 bottles at a perfect temperature for serving. It comes complete with a nitrogen bottle so as to keep the wine fresh for up to 3 weeks once opened, a electronic temperature control, for storing the reds and whites separately at their ideal temperatures (15°/19°C for red wines, 6°/10°C for white and rosé wines), and even nifty LED illumination to show off your prized collection.

Mainly designed for hotels and restaurants the Vin Au Verre can be yours for the bargain price of around R46,000 ex vat (approx £3,210).

Regardless of the price personally I think it is a must have for any die hard Stormhoek fan and when I find a way to make thousands of pounds every hour, I for one will definitely be investing in one or two for my home!

If you would like one and you live in South Africa please contact Wine Essentials on (27) 044 384 1936, or if you unlucky enough to live outside SA please click here.

Cheers,

Chris

Stormhoek braai, Update post

Just a quick one to point you to a few posts that have been writing about Stormhoek and the big love braai recently.

• Dave Duarte: Stormhoek Humanizes Wine.
• Gerry : Stromy Blogger’s Braai, and he also has a great collection of pics here.
• Stii: Tattoos and Chocolates.
• Glen and Bridgitte: ZA Show #090 (great SA podcast and will have more on the braai next week too!)
• Shaun Dewberry: Don't Cry For Non-Stormhoek Growers. I Won't.

I'd just like to say a big thanks to all the guys and girls above for the support, we aim to please and I look forward to plying you with wine when we next meet.

On another note if your in South Africa (and some select places in the UK), please go pick up the latest (April) issue of Wine magazine. They have written a great 4 page article on Stormhoek and the layout is even the same as our blog!. I am trying to get a copy to post on www.stormhoek.com so will update you soon if your unable to get the magazine.

Till next time,

Cheers,

Chris

Stormhoek bloggers Love braai

Last night saw in the first Stormhoek Bloggers Braai. The event was held at Stormhoek HQ just outside Wellington. This provided the first chance for a select few of our fab fans to have a look around the vineyard, try some new wines, eat some tasty food, and receive some exclusive gifts to help spread the Stormhoek big love!

Above are just a few quick pics from the Braai, notice the sexy Lady's "High class hoeker" tops!

The evening started off with a guided walk around the farm by Stormhoek's main man Graham Knox. As night was setting in fast, the moon had to provide much of the lighting for the tour and at one stage Gerry (who road tripped from the Garden route) almost got lost from the main crowd while examining some of our vines, luckily he was found after a few loud calls for help.

Next the select few got a chance to taste some of our new wines (no spitting at this tasting, all swallowed!!) and then received a limited edition bottle of Stormhoek Champagne and some very stylish tops for their hard work drinking.

Speeches from the fab Catherine and Alistair from our UK brethren as well as the main man Sir Graham Knox, followed the hand outs, telling us a little more about the Stormhoek phenomenon and our philosophy.

Food followed, and I must say I'm still in shock that they trusted the Braai to me, an Englishman, however I am pleased to tell you that as yet I have had no calls of complaint!

Drinks and chatting carried on well after midnight and it was great to be able to talk to so many fantastic people such as Glen and Bridgitte from the ZA show, Lara , Stephanie, Dave and the night time wanderer Gerry!

Will keep you posted for links and pics from other attendees and I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who made it.

All in all a great night and definitely one I wont forget.

Cheers,

Chris

Threshers voucher, Take 2

In our ongoing quest to spread the Stormhoek love we have now posted yet another 40% of all wine from Threshers voucher on the main Stormhoek site.
This is only valid in the UK for from the 22nd of march to the 1st of April so is just in time for Easter.
If your in the UK and fancy cheap wine for Easter please feel free to download the voucher by clicking here or going to the main stormhoek site!
Will have to try and get a similar offer for our South African crowd, will keep you posted.

Enjoy,

Chris

Big Love Stormhoek wine farm trip

Its official, the time and date for one of this years most exciting South African events has been finalised!!. Yes that's right, the bloggers Stormhoek wine farm trip.
The event will take place on Friday the 23rd of March from 6pm onwards at the Stormhoek wine birthing farm just outside Wellington. We have been making sure this will be a evening you wont forget, The following are just some of the incredible attractions we have in store for you so be sure to bring a camera.

• Exclusive limited edition Stormhoek bottles of Champagne made just for you, complete with one of the fab Hugh McLeod's cartoon labels.
• The first tasting of our new 2007 Pino Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc and rose
• Limited edition Wine farm tour T-shirts (we even have made sexy ones just for the ladies :)
• Gourmet caterer serving food and snacks
• Exclusive Guided tour of the farm from the incredible one and only wine and marketing guru Graham Knox
• Talks from the Stormhoek crew including guest appearances from some of the UK gang
• A roof over your head is guaranteed if you accidentaly happen to consume too much wine !

We have limited the event to 25 people so make sure you book fast by signing up on the Wiki by clicking here, or if your feeling lazy feel free to give me a call on 082 775 4022 or email me at chrisraw@gmail.com and I will add you on the list myself.

Directions have been listed on the Wiki and if you have any problems the number to call will be 021 864 3155 as mobile reception is very limited at the farm. If your coming from Cape Town the journey should take you approx 1 hour, If anyone wants to share a ride I suggest you either use the comments section for this post or just use the Wiki.

Be sure to sign up fast and all of us at Stormhoek look forward to showing you a whale of a good time. Cheers, Chris x

27 Dinner Cape Town video

Thanks to the lovely chaps at Quirk, the above video is now available for your viewing pleasure, showing a recap of the sights and sounds of the last Cape Town 27 dinner. I love the bit with the Stormhoek :)

Thanks again to Dave and Mike for the organising, and just so you know the latest version of their fab podcast Amplitude is now available for your listening pleasure.

If you would like to attend the next Cape Town 27 Dinner sponsored by Stormhoek, be sure to be a blogger and please click here as the places are filling up fast!!

Stormhoek hits the Sunday Times!!!!

Over the weekend Stormhoek featured in the South African Sunday Times.

Below is article in full for your reading enjoyment.

Wine blogging stirs up a sales storm

Rowan Philp: London

It is a winery so small that half of its vineyard could fit into the KWV cellars. The wine it produces is hailed no greater than “pretty good” by its own marketing people.
Yet Stormhoek is now the world’s most talked-about wine online and it has trebled international sales in 18 months.

Fresh from its latest mischievous brand-building ploy in February — filming British supermarket-goers on their views on love — the Wellington winery is now selling more than one in five bottles of premium SA wine in the UK, and is set for one in four this year.
Yet experts said this week the company’s broader achievement was blazing a new marketing trail for all small SA export businesses, by harnessing the power of Internet blogs to become a global microbrand.

Established in 2003, the boutique Stormhoek label sold 50 000 cases — mostly in the UK — in 2004. Last year, it sold around 150 000 and, with a new deal signed with retail giant Tesco this week, its CEO has projected sales of 240 000 cases this year.

Stormhoek is the winery that caused headlines on three continents in December by having 3.5 million UK-based discount vouchers downloaded from its website, breaking global blogging records. Designed for suppliers and “friends” of UK liquor retailer Thresher, “40% off all wines” coupons were offered without any promotion or marketing.
Threshers stores were clogged with discount hunters, and its stocks depleted after one of its smaller customers, Stormhoek, posted the voucher on its website, and, audaciously, also linked it to Britain’s most popular blogging site. The phenomenon was described as a fluke and an error at the time, and Thresher’s profit margins were under threat as 150 000 vouchers had to be redeemed at the discount rate in 10 days.
Stormhoek estimates that it sold an extra 12 000 cases in the frenzy — and sales rose almost 500% at Sainsbury’s, another UK retail giant, over the same period.

Jason Korman of Stormhoek, said: “It’s all about being talked about. No one really cares anymore about where your wine is from, or even about its subtle qualities.”
And , rather than it being an “error”, Korman and his maverick marketing team in London said the frenzy was simply one result of “viral marketing” in an overall marketing strategy to create “a community through conversation”.
To achieve that, Korman sought to find the person in Britain who communicated with the most people for the least amount of money, and found Hugh McLeod – the man the Financial Times has called “the most influential blogger in Britain”.

A cartoonist and marketer with an online cult following, thanks to his blogsite www.GapingVoid.com, McLeod got carte blanche to innovate from Stormhoek’s marketing guru Graham Knox.
He broke rule number one by dishing out free wine to bloggers, on faith that they might talk about the wine online — and it worked. Next, he sponsored a series of “geek dinners” for bloggers in California’s Silicone Valley, and elsewhere, in a bid to generate brand awareness through “social gestures” to one of the world’s most naturally communicative communities.
“With blogging as your medium, it really is possible to create a global awareness with the marketing budget of a flea,” he said.
“You look at wines in a supermarket, and go, how do you compete with hundreds of thousands of wineries? Well, you can’t by showing people pictures of your winery, and telling them how good the wine is. You talk about what they want to talk about — often, not about wine at all — because all you need is a lot of people going, ‘Hey, we’ve heard of you guys, we like the things you do, and your wine is pretty good, so I’ll buy it’.”

In the run up to Valentine’s Day last month, McLeod and a small film crew went on a roadshow of 36 Tesco supermarkets, from Inverness to London, filming customers in the wine section responding to the question: “What does ‘love’ mean to you?”
He wore a branded T-shirt and stood around bottles of “Big Love” Stormhoek, featuring another broken rule: a cartoon wine label. He didn’t forget his on-line “community”, downloading nine three-minute clips of the documentary onto YouTube.
“A conversation is a two-way street – you can’t just preach your message; people no longer want messages about products. You’re creating a community.”

Cape Town 27 Dinner

Another fab meal and plenty of wine in the Mother city and this time with a new name!
27 dinner was launched in Joburg at the beginning of the year and a couple of nights ago saw in its Cape Town debut at Relish, complete with projectors, speakers, food, film and sound crew and most importantly the best wine in the world :)
The idea is to get a group of people that are all interested in having a conversation, learning and developing business as well as social friendships with the best of the best in and sometimes out of South Africa. For the 27 dinners those people are generally in the IT, Tech, Marketing industry but certainly not limited to it, as seen in Cape Town.
There were some great speeches, one of them by a musician called Verity, who is successfully pre-selling 5000 copies of her album that is yet to be made (visit her site and please help out, its for charity too!), and secondly a gent called Guy Lundy who's job it is to make sure that Cape Town remains and continues to grow as one of the most important developing cities in the world.
Wine was naturally sponsored by Stormhoek and if anyone who went to the dinner is wondering why they didn't see many of the bottles, it was probably because they were busy been consumed by whomever waved/screamed the most frantically, as the waiters did their best running and pouring themselves (40 bottles were consumed).
Other speeches were from Shelly Levin, on how to make cash from affiliate advertising, Angus Robinson, on the future is bright the future is mobile, and then there was also a great speech from the Stormhoek main man Graham Knox on how a little wine farm in the middle of nowhere became one of South Africa's leading wine farms/brands.
The event was very kindly organised by my good friends and owners of Cerebra, Mike Stopforth and Dave duarte. Everyone I met seemed to have a great eve and although some of the speeches lasted too long I am sure that the next one will take on a more fast speech style. This will naturally allow for much more drinking and general chit chat so I'm already looking forward to it!!.
Thanks to all those who made it, and hope you enjoyed the wine and good company, also before I forget thanks to Max (The hunter of genius) who did some stellar work on the presentations, and also to the guys from the Garden Route, Stii and Gerry for making the intrepid journey back into civilisation !!.
We also launched one of our new slogan's at the event, with t-shirts saying "high class hoeker" on the front (in glittery silver!) and one of the famous Huge Macloed cartoons on the back. Three of these were auctioned off for charity.
I could go on about the eve for ages but I am in need of a glass of wine so for more reading please go to the 27 dinner wiki here and if your keen to attend the next one book soon here as its already almost half full !!!.
P.S. The dinners take place every 27th of the month, alternating between Joburg and Cape Town.

Stormhoek + Top Gear = Space race hope

Top Gear Shuttle Launch Aka. The New Car Bomb. - Click here for the funniest movie of the week

Just had to share this hilarious video with you all. Its taken from the popular UK BBC car programme Top Gear.
In there continuing quest to accomplish crazy stunts with old and knackered cars they have aimed for the sky, quite literally with this one!!.
The plan was to launch a Reliant Robin into the stratosphere and then pilot it back down to earth via remote control, so as to create the worlds first reusable space ship car shuttle, the results were brilliant.
However I could not help thinking back to the Stormhoek mentos experiment and wondering wheather they maybe could have achieved better results using several thousand gallons of our award winning Shiraz and an appropriate quantity of Mentos? this could be South Africa's first and best chance for an independent space programme. Anyone interested in helping get this fantastic idea literally of the ground please send in mentos and Stormhoek will supply the wine :)

Garden Route Dinner, The Adventure !

This weekend saw in the first Garden Route Geek Dinner sponsored by Stormhoek. The event was a great success and organised by the magnificent Stii and Gerry, who provided us with a true Garden route experience by holding the venue at the Kwelanga Country Retreat, complete with roaming wildlife and a fab view.
The journey from Cape Town was a great adventure, we left in the pouring rain that continued for much of the journey, adding a touch of excitement to the driving experience. This however did not phase my traveling companions Dave, Max, Rafiq and Miguel who continued to use their laptops (please see the above pic of Miguel coding in the car!!) and have fun.
Once we arrived safe and sound things got under way quickly, first up came the speeches by Dave, Stii, Myself, Charl, Rafiq and Max, then we had four limited edition "Change the Power" Stormhoek T-shirts to give away for the first people to do an open mic session, needless to say they went fast and were adored and adorned straight away!!.
The wine flowed well and we got some great contacts for the garden route so to all those involved, Thank you very very much, and I'm looking forward to the next one.
For more reading about the event please click on the people highlighted above and for pictures feel from to go to my Picasa folder by clicking here.
Lastly just a friendly reminder that the Stormhoek Love wine is now available in all Pick 'N Pay stores in the Western Cape complete with an " I love you" Huge Macleod cartoon, great gift for valentines day guys !! ;)

Garden Route Dinner

Gooday folks, Just a rather late post to say am off to the first Garden Route Geek Dinner today to spread some more Stormhoek love. I will be giving a speech about our little wine farm and how our marketing has got Stormhoek into conversations all round the world.
If you happen to be anywhere near the area its not too late to come join us and have a glass or five of our great wine.
The event has been organised by Stii and Gerry and is taking place at the Kwelanga Country Retreat. I know this is rather late notice but the good news is they can accommodate helicopters at the lodge and if private jets are more your thing, George airport is just up the road and open for international flights!!.
If you cant make it have a great weekend anyway and get ready for the rocking Cape Town 27 dinner.