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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 purpose of the Nederburg Taste Theatre is to give people the opportunity to taste a selection of wines and foods together to see what happens. “As with any match in life,” says Nederburg spokesperson Wencke Grobler, “the ‘chemistry’ must be right. You have to have compatibility. 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.

“The idea is to experience 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. We want wine lovers to free themselves from the burdens of do’s and don’ts involved with wine and food matching. Instead, we 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.”

She says popular red, white and dessert wines from the Nederburg range will be lined up in the Taste Theatre for visitors to combine with the tastes of, for instance, gherkins, nougat, cashew nuts, olives and soy sauce.

Meanwhile, Wellington Metshane, a senior member of the team making Nederburg reds, will be on hand to introduce visitors to the festival to some exciting new offerings at the winery’s exhibition stand.

The Taste Theatre is open to festival goers on a first-come first-served basis and can accommodate up to 48 people at each session. On Thursday, September 6, and Friday, September 7, there will be three sessions each, at 19:00, 20:00 and 21:00. On Saturday, September 8, there will be three sessions, at 18:00, 19:00 and 20:00.

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

 
Issued by:
DKC (De Kock Communications) for Nederburg Wines, August 29, 2012
 
QUERIES :
WENCKE GROBLER, NEDERBURG’S SA BRAND MANAGER (021) 809 7000 or 078 314 3439
TESSA DE KOCK/MARLISE POTGIETER, DKC (021) 422 2690
 
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