Cape winemakers
travel to the Soweto Wine Festival to showcase their
wines.
Discover South Africa’s travel destinations while tasting your
way through 950 wines and plan your next holiday.
There is a wide
choice of food to enjoy at the festival,
so plan for an evening of great tastes!
Learn how to pair
wine and food or how to kick-start a new career
in wine.
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Soweto Wine Festival Press Releases
TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival Shaping Future Wine Consumers SOWETO, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA - 12 SEPTEMBER 2012- The TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival , in association with Food Network, is officially the place to be on the first weekend of September every year and so say 8413 people who visited the festival and tasted over 900 wines this year.
All the Stars at the TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival Eight years ago in Soweto, what began as a small gathering of winemakers trailblazing a new market, and a smattering of curious Sowetans, has grown into a major highlight on the Gauteng Calendar.
Nederburg presents with Masterchef SA Finalist at Soweto Show
MasterChef SA Top 5 finalist Lungile Nhlanha will be joining Wim Truter of Nederburg’s award-winning winemaking team to co-present a fun and interactive experience at the upcoming Soweto Wine Festival that runs from September 6 to 8.
The two taste talents are teaming up for the Nederburg Taste Theatre to let you in on a few simple but very effective tips for making the most of pairing wine with food. Lungile, now a part of DRUM’s food team and Wim, who trained in France and South Africa and makes Nederburg’s delicious white wines, will highlight how the five basic flavours - sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami (a Japanese term to describe a flavour that is intensely savoury) impact on wine and food matching.
The Love of Wine Thrives in Soweto Launch of ‘Soweto Towers’ Mixer and meet the thriving Soweto Wine Club
If you are one of the lucky wine lovers going to the 8th TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival , in association with Food Network, then be sure to try out the new wine mix concept called ‘Soweto Towers’. Named Kalimolsco (or Calimocha) by the Spanish where it was first invented in 1972, it is simply a fifty-fifty mix of red wine and cola, or white wine with lemonade.
Mzansi’s Wine Chic get ready for the 2012 TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival .
The most anticipated wine festival of the year is only a month away. Get set to join Mzansi’s thousands of trendsetters, movers & shakers, wine, food and music lovers, the aspirational and inspirational, connoisseurs and newbies and all those who just want to have a fun night out, meet people and taste over 900 of South Africa’s fabulous wines at the 8th annual TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival .
Nederburg Goes North and Doubles Up For Soweto Festival
Nederburg is bringing two talented members of its award-winning winemaking team to Gauteng for the Soweto Wine Festival in September. They are internationally-trained Wim Truter, who makes the white wines, and Wellington Metshane, who is a senior member of the team making the reds. Both work under the direction of cellar master Razvan Macici.
TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival Pops a Cork in Celebration.
The organisers and visitors of the 7th TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival are hailing the 2011 festival as the best ever in terms of attendance, operations, flow and offerings. Part of the Arts Alive calendar, the 2011 TOPS at SPAR Soweto Wine Festival attracted a record 8550 people over the 3 evenings, which is 1002 more people than last year.
