Winter warmers this month in Food and Home home with some great wine choices as well.
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Don’t you just love the way they have placed the bottles?
Last month we disgorged our next batch of the 2008 vintage, the initial release was only 1500 bottles out of 5500 bottles produced of 2008 vintage, well everyone enjoyed them so much we had to push the next batch up by a couple of months.
We have now disgorged a further 2000 bottles, these have been on the lees for 23 months and after it had settled in the bottle it’s tasting gorgeous..
Those delicate white fruit characteristics are still there with a beautiful deepened biscuit flavour coming through even more now.
Enjoy they are flying fast!
Champagne Tasting and Dinner including a rare vertical Jacquesson tasting of older champagnes from our library and an introduction to the new Genevieve Cap Classiques presented by the Melissa Genevieve Nelsen!
Date: Tuesday 20 April
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Cuvées Classiques, wine cellar, Palms Décor and Lifestyle centre, 145 Sir Lowry Road, Wood stock
Cost per head: R350
6.30pm: Welcome drinks -
Genevieve MCC: We are very excited to have the new Genevieve Blanc de Blancs MCC as our welcome drink and the wine maker, Melissa Genevieve Nelsen will be attending to introduce it to us.
7pm: Champagne tasting
First Flight: Jacquesson vertical tasting, Jacquesson 728, Jacquesson 731 and Jacquesson 733
Second Flight: Examining the contribution of chardonnay and Pinot Noir to the champagne blend
Drappier signature 100% chardonnay, Duval-Leroy Paris 60% Pinot Noir and 40% chardonnay and Lallier rosé 100% PN
Third Flight: Vintages – Georges lacombe 1999, Colin cuvée cramant 2003 and Drappier Grande sendrée 2002
Draw: There will be a draw for a bottle of Champagne at the end of the evening as usual and 10% discount on all orders placed on the night!
8pm: Dinner: A sumptuous buffet of soups, quiches, breads, patés and cheeses will follow the tasting.
To Book: Call Jane or Cathy on 021 461 7498 or mail to : info@ccq.co.za
This should be a very interesting tasting – and there are still places available.
We hope to see you there.
Regards
Melissa Genevieve Nelsen
Posted by Chris von Ulmenstein under Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio, Wine news
One of the fringe benefits of writing is that one meets some very special persons. One such lady is Melissa Genevieve Nelsen, who has just launched the first vintage of her new Genevieve Methode Cap Classique.
Melissa grew up in the lovely fruit-farming valley of Elgin, dreaming of becoming an air hostess. Her late mother challenged her to think big, and to become a pilot rather than a hostess. Despite the financial challenge of paying for the flying lessons, paid for by waitressing, Melissa persevered, and qualified with a commercial pilot’s licence, flying for a small charter company in Johannesburg. Read more
The bubbles go on – and on, and on …
November 26th, 2009 by Cathy Marston
Truly sorry if you don’t like sparkling wine folks, but it just seems that EVERYTHING I am going to these days involves fizz. In fact, now I think about it, actually I am not going to apologise for this because the more fizz and fun in your life, the better it is.
This is especially true if you get invited to a champagne brunch at 10am on a Thursday morning – a particularly decadent time for drinking if you ask me. The Sky Bar at the top of the Cape Royale seems to be the place to launch your bubbly these days (see below) and Melissa Nelsen couldn’t have chosen a better spot if she tried. Her maiden fizz, Genevieve, refers to her middle name and not that 1950’s British movie involving the London to Brighton vintage road race, although I am sure a bottle or two would help all the Hooray Henrys immensely! She says that fizz is currently her passion and not her profession (she does the marketing for several exclusive Walker Bay wine estates including Niels and Penny Verburg’s lovely Luddite) but you can tell she really wants to do this full time.
And why not? This is a great first effort, a blanc de blanc made from 100% Chardonnay with the help of fizz fundi, Ross Gower. Lots of toast, biscuits, lemons and limes and a worryingly quaffable quality to it (probably helped by the many smiling waiters who kept cropping up at my elbow with full bottles). Nice nibbles, lovely views, perfect start to the day.
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