{"id":34893,"date":"2016-12-16T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=34893"},"modified":"2016-12-12T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T07:31:32","slug":"bouchard-finlayson-present-hemel-en-aarde-pinot-noir-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/bouchard-finlayson-present-hemel-en-aarde-pinot-noir-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"BOUCHARD FINLAYSON TO PRESENT AT HEMEL-EN-AARDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bouchard Finlayson will once again be taking part in the prestigious Hemel-en-Aarde Pinot Noir Celebration, which will be hosted at Bona Dea Estate on 27 and 28 January 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exclusive two-day event will include delicious food, live music and tastings of Pinot Noir produced by 11 wineries in the area. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highlights include a Tasting led by Michael<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fridjhon<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">winemakers will give their personal impressions of the \u2018heart break\u2019 grape, while international guest speaker James Dicey will take guests through a flight of five Pinot Noirs from Central Otago, in a comparison between South African and New Zealand wines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Individual farms will present various smaller events on the Saturday. Bouchard Finlayson\u2019s interesting \u2018Pinot \u2018Musically\u2019 Un-puzzled\u2019 programme will include a select tasting of international and South African Pinot Noirs. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guests will enjoy an interactive musical quiz to challenge the mind and tantalize the palate, followed by a delicious light lunch in the Bouchard Finlayson homestead cellar.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pinot Noir Celebration will provide a platform for Bouchard Finlayson\u2019s award-winning Galpin Peak and T\u00eate de Cuv\u00e9e. The latter presents a selection of the estate\u2019s top Pinot Noir barrels from a particular vintage and showcase the very best of the terroir as a unique combination of soil and climate, where the exact balance provides the perfect expression of this elusive grape. Guests will also have the opportunity to taste the 2013 Galpin Peak Pinot Noir, which has received wide acclaim locally and abroad, scoring a 5-star Platter rating and receiving Platinum Status &#8211; the highest honour &#8211; in the 2016 South African Wine Index (SAWi). The 2013 vintage also scored 94 points in Hong Kong at the Great Wines of the World, and won a Gold medal in the prestigious 2016 Global Pinot Noir Masters awards, which rate the finest Pinot Noirs in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Situated on the R320 near Hermanus, Bouchard Finlayson vineyard and winery is open for tastings and sales Monday to Friday from 09h00 to 17h00 and on Saturdays from 10h00 to 13h00.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bouchardfinlayson.co.za\/\"><b>bouchardfinlayson.co.za<\/b><\/a><b> | <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BouchardFinlayson\"><b>Facebook<\/b><\/a><b> | <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BouchFinlayson\"><b>Twitter<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bouchard Finlayson will once again be taking part in the prestigious Hemel-en-Aarde Pinot Noir Celebration, which will be hosted at Bona Dea Estate on 27 and 28 January 2017. The exclusive two-day event will include delicious food, live music and tastings of Pinot Noir produced by 11 wineries in the area. Highlights include a Tasting led by Michael Fridjhon where the winemakers will give their personal impressions of the \u2018heart break\u2019 grape, while international guest speaker James Dicey will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}