Just picture it. More quality time around the dinner table with your friends and family, reading that novel you bought yourself last year past page fifty, eating too much but
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Carina Garrett joined the JAN Restaurant team in 2018 as sous chef after making a name for herself in Franschhoek, one of South Africa’s top culinary destinations. She’s not just
As a Franschhoek wine estate that is now well into its third century, Val de Vie ranks amongst the most established in the country. Just as the French Huguenots once
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Charles Hopkins is one of South Africa’s winemaking elite. After graduating from Elsenburg College, the prestigious Stellenbosch-based school of winemaking, in 1986, he honed his craft at Bellingham Wines and
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They say you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Sticking with kitchen metaphors, I’d like to go so far to say…
As a chef, I’m intensely aware of ingredients, where they come from, and their seasons of growth and harvest. More and more attuned to our need to live more sustainably,
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The wine world can be a fussy place. At JAN, debating which region is allowed to grow which grape is an almost daily occurrence – and cause for healthy (if
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Johannesburg, like all great cities, is a multifarious mix of history, intrigue, disruption, metamorphosis, and rebirth. And the deeper you delve, the more fascinating Jozi becomes. In collaborating with the
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The farm, Twee Jonge Gezellen, is located in the Tulbagh valley, a region of the Western Cape that has provided farmers with a bountiful agricultural environment for almost 300 years.
Those who love their bubbly will know that the only fizzy wine that may call itself Champagne is produced in the Champagne region to the east of the French capital
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