NOT TO BE MISSED - Thursday evening 30th August Wine Dinner at Manuka Tokai STARTING 7PM with the much talked about Stormhoek Wines. Reservations are essential - Call Clarence on 021 701 2046 with your meal choices and credit card details please for confirmation of your booking. Cost R140/head includes:
Welcome drink
Starter - Stunning Soup - choice of Oxtail OR Sweet Potato & Butternut
Taste your way through a range of Stormhoek wines whilst listening to an educational talk by Graham Knox in person.
Main Course - Wood-fired Roasted Baby Chicken OR Lamb Shank OR Line Fish
Dessert - Decadent Chocolate Mousse with Couture on ice.
Coffee

South Africa: Blogging And Much Drinking of Wine Makes Winery Smile
Business Day (Johannesburg) COLUMN
2 July 2007 - Amy Brooke - Johannesburg
LAST year, when South African wine sales took a dip overseas, a small Wellington winery called Stormhoek managed to double its exports. This year the winery predicts a repeat performance, forecasting international sales of more than 350000 cases compared with the 10000 it sells on the local market. But what's even more surprising about this operation -- still relatively unknown here at home -- is the hype it has generated around its brand, particularly in European countries and in the US.
Stormhoek is now the most talked-about wine in the online world. Its website gets more than a million hits a day.
To read more visit http://allafrica.com/stories/200707021599.html


Britons soon to be offered a Rosé over ice from the Stormhoek stable
19 April 2007 by WineNews Editorial Team
South African brand Stormhoek this week announced the imminent release of a concept wine in the UK named Couture - a Rosé made by Stormhoek winemaker Graham Knox, in a style intended to be consumed with ice.

Couture - a blend of Pinotage, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon - launches in June in a major UK retailer at £6.99. It is packaged in a tall, colourful, modern, and chic bottle, its developers say, and its secret recipe and different serving techniques, including draught on tap for the on-trade, they believe give the product an edge in all market sectors.

Knox credit his wife Dianne for the idea: "I've watched my wife drink Rosé for years and the one thing she's always complained about, was that it tasted watered down when she put ice in it, so I made Couture especially for her!"

"The ongoing popularity of Rosé, the success of Magners Cider 'over ice' and a survey we conducted in South Africa, gave us the idea to take Graham's 'secret' and develop it," says Jason Korman, CEO of Stormhoek Vineyards. "You can serve it many different ways, on ice and even as a mixer - we see it as part of a trend where Rosé can be consumed like a cocktail, making it an even more sophisticated drink."

Sixty-thousand consumers at Taste London 2007 will witness the launch of Couture, where an Interactive Ice Bar filled with huge blocks of multi-coloured ice, will have a mixologist serving Couture in its four guises: wine glass, tumbler, martini glass and champagne flute. The brand launch will be supported by pre-event video trailers on www.youtube.com and on its website, which launches this week.

The national campaign will see a Couture branded ice-cream van, with film crew and ice bar, travel around the UK visiting supermarkets and wine specialists, sampling its secret blend to thousands of consumers.