Here is a list of blogs I have been reading lately:
Relax with Dax
Dax loves social venues in Cape Town and reviews them here in his own brilliant way.
Rossouw’s Restaurants
Rossouw’s Restaurants is an independent, “tell it like it is” commentary on the South African restaurant scene.
Under the Influence Blog
If you haven’t met the “Wine Bandits” yet [...]

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A guest post by one lucky little BarRat: 
The best day in the winelands?
Yesterday was a pretty good day for me. In fact it was such a good day, that I challenge you to top this for a winelands excursion. Where to start? Ah yes, a little round of golf at De Zalze, one of the [...]

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A great picture taken by a good friend while we were sipping the day away at this year’s Oesfees!
 

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Apologies for the lack of posts lately.
The excuse:

I’ve been on holiday
I haven’t felt like writing about wine - which is a poor excuse because I could have written about beer or food.

But sometimes you need a break in order to come back with fresh insight and motivation.
So the journey to wine nirvana continues..

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I love it when you stumble upon a great little bottle of wine when before drinking it you have little expectation of how it is going to taste.
The Wine Thief came over the other night and said in these exact words:
” here, I’ve become a wine snob lately so I bought this little shiraz from [...]

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