Wade Bales Wine Society: Food & Drink in Cape Town, Western Cape

There are few wine personalities more experienced and enthusiastic than Mike Ratcliffe, about whom you could say, wine is in his DNA (his mother is Norma Ratcliffe, the legendary pioneering female winemaker from Warwick Estate). Mike is both proprietor of his family’s business and a partner in Vilafonté, an emerging of the Cape wine scene. …

Wade Bales Tasting at ‘Taste of Cape Town’ Green Point Cricket Club, 19-22 April

Join Wade Bales and 40 of South Africa's premier wineries, including Mulderbosch, Klein Constantia, Ernie Els, Paul Cluver and Delaire-Graff, as they each showcase their top two flagship wines alongside 10 Single Malt Whiksy Houses at Rosebank Firs (Johannesburg), on Thursday 31 May and Friday 1 June. Glenfiddich and Glenfarclas are amongst some of the top single malts available for tasting at the event.

Wade Bales Wine Society will be hosting its first WINE SALE of 2012 on Saturday 3rd March 2012, from 08.30-13.00pm.

It’s Friday the 13th of January 2012. (Bad year for superstitious folk as I believe there are three of them this year!) Following a few weeks’ break over the Festive Season, I’m back in the saddle, setting out to meet Thys Louw, winemaker of both Diemersdal and Maastricht in the Durbanville region. Having finalised the …