Featuring Samuel
Viljoen and Wellington Metshane of Nederburg, as well as seasoned celebrity chef
Citrum Khumalo, the concept offers visitors an entertaining, informal and
interactive taste-and-discover encounter with wine and food flavours, textures
and palate weight.
"It's much more
than a show-and-tell event," explains Melissa Diedericks, brand manager
for Nederburg. "By tasting wine and food combinations for yourself as part
of the experience, you get to find out first-hand, what works, what doesn't and
then explore why, with two leading experts in the field.
"The 45 minute
presentation has been designed to encourage questions from the audience, so
there can be an easy exchange of ideas and opinions. There are no rights and
wrongs. It's about identifying wine and food compatibilities you like. That's
what makes it fun and interesting".
The organisers will be
handing out canapés for the audience to sample with wines chosen from
Nederburg's Winemaster's Reserve internationally acclaimed range.
"So often you'll
hear the rule that white wine is for fish or red wine for meat. Our Taste
Theatre will show that those rules don't apply. It's about matching wine
flavour with food flavour, not wine flavour with food category. Seasoning plays
a huge role in food flavour so that will obviously be a focus of the pairing
experience, along with compatibility of wine and food palate weight and
mouthfeel."
Just 42 people can be
accommodated in the theatre venue but there will be three presentations every
evening to give as many people as possible a chance to attend. Attendance is
included as part of the festival entry ticket price, but seats are allocated on
a first-come, first-served basis.
Nederburg will be
giving away wine prizes in a lucky draw at each of the presentations. The Taste
Theatre will be staged at 18:30, 19:30 and 20:30 on Thursday, September 4; at
18:30, 19:30 and 20:30 on Friday, September 5; and at 17:30, 18:30 and 19:30 on
Saturday, September 6.
Tickets to the Soweto
Wine & Lifestyle Festival are R130 each. Three-day tickets go for R310
each. For more details or to book, go to http://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=829252279
Nederburg and
Robertsons Herbs & Spices are both sponsors of MasterChef South Africa
season 3 that runs weekly on M-Net on Thursday evenings at 19:30 from
August 21 until December 18.
Visit www.nederburg.co.za for more on the brand, or send an e-mail to nedwines@distell.co.za.
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