Capetown Dinner Part III

For our last installment of our Capetown Idle Cellars wine dinner series things got real fancy.  The night started off with a bottle of the Steenberg “methode cap classique” sparkling Chardonnay.  After a few bottles we moved onto the first course; an...

2009 Idle Cellars Chardonnay

There are only 15 cases left of the 2009 Idle Cellars Chardonnay.  This was the first white wine we made at Idle Cellars, going big making around 200 cases.  We fermented it in barrel using three different kinds of yeast to maximize flavor.  It was aged in French oak...

A Seafood Braai in Capetown

After dining out for a few weeks enjoying some of Capetown’s best restaurants (Test Kitchen and La Boheme), we felt it was time to throw another dinner party, thinking that seafood would be a great theme.  We took a trip to the local fish market in Woodstock...