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Coffee for the After Hours Athlete |
| Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 14:02, 0 comments |
| Starting out at varsity means a lot of good times with good friends, both old and new. It’s the 5 AM walk home and climbing over locked fences, it’s concerts, festivals, long days and even longer nights. Fortunately, there’s a scientifically formulated solution for getting After Hours Athletes through the morning after while they share their stories from the night before – it’s called coffee.Puma Social After Hours Athletes on campuses across the country will be getting more than just a kick-start to another crazy day when they buy their ... read more |
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Beautiful Botswana |
| Friday, April 19, 2013 at 10:58, 0 comments |
| It’s been a while since my last confession…I have been so busy with my day-to-day job that I have essentially neglected my passion, meaning that I haven’t visited any spectacular places recently!So, I thought maybe I should unveil some of the intricacies of the world of travelling for business rather than for pleasure. Although business is business and pleasure is pleasure, the two almost always become intertwined when it comes to places to stay and eat.My recent business trip took me back to a most beloved country, Botswana, a place of untouched sp ... read more |
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Sparkling lunch at Burrata to launch latest Pol Roger vintages! |
| Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 11:13, 0 comments |
| I was first introduced to Pol Roger champagnes at Rust en Vrede a number of years ago, poured by then sommelier Neil Grant, at the insistence of a guest house friend who had invited us to dinner. Yesterday I was lucky enough to be part of a small group of twelve (mainly wine) writers to celebrate the launch of the latest Pol Roger vintages at Burrata, of which Neil is now the co-owner.As Burrata is one of my (few) special restaurants, and the champagne brand impressed me then, I needed no encouragement to accept the invitation!I had met the charming Johannesburg-based ... read more |
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Chapter 3 of 8: Drinking Smarter |
| Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 10:48, 0 comments |
| So. Wine is fundamentally awesome and to get to that awesomeness we need to taste for difference. So far, so good.We now hit a little snag in the road. All those differences you taste in wine are messages. They talk to you in a language we are always learning, about the weather the grape was grown in, tales of how the winemakers worked, and mayday signals alerting you to faults in the wine. To learn this language we need to enter into a labyrinth with no centre, a maze without end, we need to learn about vines, weather, grapes, winemaking techniques, oak forests, styl ... read more |
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