SOUTH AFRICA, SOWETO, GAUTENG,
26 JULY2012 - Nederburg is bringing two talented members of
its award-winning winemaking team to Gauteng for the TOPS
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.
They
will present some of the exciting new developments that
have been taking place at the famous Paarl winery, and also
Nederburg’s entertaining and interactive Taste Theatre
that explores the impact of various food flavours on wine.
Visitors to the event that runs from Thursday, September
6 to Saturday, September 8, will have the chance to try
some groundbreaking new wines and also sample various foods
with a selection of wines to discover how they affect the
taste of the wines.
Nederburg spokesperson Wencke Grobler says: “Whereas
in the past we had one presenter, we have decided to bring
two, so guests have more chance to interact with us, either
at the theatre itself or at our stand.”
The Taste Theatre has been conceived as a taste adventure
and will highlight the impact on wine and food pairing,
made by the five basic flavours - sweet, salty, sour,
bitter and umami (a Japanese term to describe a flavour
that is intensely savoury).
“We want to show how something that seems as insignificant
as a squeeze of lemon or a little extra salt added to your
food can make a substantial difference to the way you experience
an accompanying wine.”
She says the theatre isn’t meant to create more rules
surrounding wine. “If anything, the aim is the exact
opposite. We want wine lovers to free themselves from the
burdens of do’s and don’ts involved with wine
and food matching. All we want is to demonstrate how you
can enrich the pleasure of the wine you drink by offering
you the experience of combining it in a way that brings
compatible flavours together. So often you can taste a wine
with a food that is not ideal and the result can lessen
your enjoyment of both. It doesn’t have to be that
way once you are exposed to some very easy guidelines that
are more about common sense than anything else.”
She says popular red, white and dessert wines from the Nederburg
range will be lined up in the Taste Theatre for visitors
to try with foods such as beef, tuna, cheddar cheese and
chocolate.
The Taste Theatre is open to festival goers on a first-come
first-served basis. The presentation will be staged at various
times on each of the three days.
Nederburg has the highest number of five-star rated wines
in the 2012 Platter’s South African Wine Guide, a
distinction it shares with two other wineries. In 2011,
Nederburg was the Platter’s Winery of the Year. Last
year, a Nederburg wine achieved the highest score on the
inaugural Five Nations Wine Challenge, involving South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, Chile and Argentina.
Tickets, at R120 a head can be booked through Webtickets,
from Cape Wine Academy, Morara Wine Emporium and the Soweto
Hotel. For more details, go to www.sowetowinefestival.co.za.
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