Neil Pendock

16/11/2014

My thoughts on sonbrille.
http://neilpendock.com/seapoint-sunglasses-reinforce-african-big-man-stereotype/

While Graaff’s Pool pervs and perambulators lose their cool over the Nelson Mandela brille on the Seapoint promenade, the question to be asked is how could such an African Big Man stereotype be used to memorialise South Africa’s most famous son? If Jozi was world design capital, would Troyeville rem…

10/11/2014

Rating the retailers.
http://neilpendock.com/lidl-the-ultra-of-the-uk/

01/11/2014

Spent Friday in the Church of Chardonnay.
http://neilpendock.com/a-stealthy-vehicle-to-express-a-sense-of-place/

Importing a Brain of Britain such as Andrew Jefford (below), a grape-like version of Richard Dawkins, to address the biannual de Wetshof Celebration of Chardonnay, was a stroke of genius we’ve all come to expect from Danie de Wet. For once a UK import who’d prepared himself unlike the free loaders a…

26/10/2014

A special wine for lunch today, a special day.
http://neilpendock.com/the-cobus-jaubert-blues/

25/09/2014

Child labour a century ago.
http://neilpendock.com/a-bottle-for-byway/

Its a no-brainer for Black Bottle Whisky to hire Jani-Mari Swart of communications agency DKC to co-ordinate a relaunch of their Back to the Beginning Transformation at the Cape Town Club tomorrow as Swart is Afrikaans for Black. While Black Bottle is so named as it was originally presented in a bla…

07/08/2014

The Aaldering August Exhibition opens today at the Pendock Wine Gallery, with Aaldering Vineyards & Wines. http://neilpendock.com/gallery/

The day after the 9/11 Twin Tower outrage, Le Monde headlined “we’re all Americans now.” When I saw Dutch PM Mark Rutte react with cold fury and measured outrage to the MH17 calamity, I felt a little bit Dutch. And now wonder why can’t SA wine be a little more Dutch? After all, it was a Dutchman who…

23/07/2014

Our Paardeberg piece of heaven, Lemoenfontein, is home to some amazing plants. Here are two: a vierkleurtjie and a bloupypie. I'm not sure about all the diminutives, as when it comes to flavour and beauty, Lemoenfontein over delivers.

20/06/2014

The eyes have it. Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot.

15/06/2014

Wonderful dinner at Feres Bistro last night. Foie gras and bouillabaisse for me. To drink: Somerberg Riesling from Julien Schaal, Nederburg Ingenuity Red 2011 from Razvan Macici, Petit Frere 2010 from Anwilka and a Cattier Rose Champagne.

21/05/2014

Dantiness itself...

11/05/2014

Why don't they make wine labels like this any more?

09/05/2014

A Portuguese country garden in Sanguinhal this afternoon.