{"id":67879,"date":"2019-04-03T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=67879"},"modified":"2019-04-11T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T08:19:20","slug":"pinot-noir-festival-vineyard-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/pinot-noir-festival-vineyard-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinot Noir Festival at The Vineyard Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture this:\u00a0An eight-acre garden in leafy Newlands. Light, live music floating on a gentle breeze. Blankets spread and umbrellas dipping over the rolling lawns. And more than 20 of the Cape\u2019s finest Pinot Noir producers pouring sips of their beautiful wines…
\nThis is, of course, is the Pinot Noir Festival at The Vineyard in Newlands.<\/p>\n

Pinot Noir Festival at The Vineyard<\/h4>\n

Perhaps because it is such a challenging grape to cultivate and vinify, this relative of Chardonnay has become something of an obsession for many of the wine world\u2019s heavyweights.<\/p>\n

It has also developed a cult following among wine lovers. And Pinot\u2019s mutable style only feeds the fascination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Vineyard\"<\/p>\n

The grape, which is also used to produce bubblies and Ros\u00e9s, is highly influenced by the terroir where it finds itself growing. The Vineyard\u2019s annual festival, therefore, offers an intriguing opportunity to experience the differences between Ceres-grown Pinots and those from Walker Bay; Constantia-nursed wines and those from Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n

Explore how the textures, flavours, even colour and bouquets can differ, with aromas running the gamut of cherry, raspberry, red currant and other berry fruits.<\/p>\n

Or just relax, enjoy and don\u2019t think too hard about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romance in the Air<\/h4>\n

Pinot Noir was described by Joel Fleischman of Vanity Fair<\/em> as\u00a0“the most romantic of wines, with so voluptuous a perfume, so sweet an edge, and so powerful a punch that, like falling in love, they make the blood run hot and the soul wax embarrassingly poetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also has lower sugars than other grapes, which (usually) means lower alcohol levels. Cheers!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Vineyard\"<\/p>\n

At The Vineyard\u2019s 2019 Pinot Noir Festival, you will discover the famous Pinots of Hamilton Russel, Newton Johnson, De Grendel, The Drift, Klein Constantia, Creation, Paul Cluver, Meerlust, Sutherland by Thelema and Iona, among scores of other great estate names. For wine lovers, this is a day not to be missed.<\/p>\n

Location:<\/em>\u00a0The Vineyard Hotel, Colinton Street, Newlands
\nHours:<\/em>\u00a0Sunday 28th April 14h00 \u2013 17h00
\nTickets:\u00a0<\/em>R250 per person
\n<\/span>Contact:\u00a0<\/span><\/em>021 657 4500 or email<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Picture this:\u00a0An eight-acre garden in leafy Newlands. Light, live music floating on a gentle breeze. Blankets spread and umbrellas dipping over the rolling lawns. And more than 20 of the Cape\u2019s finest Pinot Noir producers pouring sips of their beautiful wines… This is, of course, is the Pinot Noir Festival at The Vineyard in Newlands. Pinot Noir Festival at The Vineyard Perhaps because it is such a challenging grape to cultivate and vinify, this relative of Chardonnay has become something […]<\/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-67879","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\/67879","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=67879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}