“‘Wine is sunlight… held together by water.’ The poetic wisdom of the Italian physicist, philosopher and stargazer… Galileo Galilei. It all begins with the soil… the vine, the grape. The smell of the vineyard. Like inhaling birth. It awakens some… ancestral… some… primordial – Anyway, some deeply imprinted… and probably subconscious place… in my soul.” – Bottle […]
The final dish from our month of The Cauliflower comes from the kitchen of the Delaire Graff Estate in the Cape Winelands of South Africa – from Chef Michael Deg, featured in our blog, The Mind of a Chef, who has created a perhaps the ultimate cauliflower […]
Wine relieves us from our minds. This is my favourite of its attributes. Which probably says more about me than the wine itself. Such is the nature of this particular poison. In the way that a Lionel Smit or Dylan Lewis speaks to its audience in a myriad of ways, […]
It is our vision at Relais & Châteaux Africa to inspire positive change in the world through cuisine, hospitality and our relentless pursuit of “l’art de vivre”… It’s a philosophy shared by the people behind the Delaire Graff Estate in the Cape Winelands of South Africa, and a […]
Had we said no to that lunch in the bright white Greenhouse, deterred by the wintry scenes through the windows that surround it, had we said no to dinner around that giant oak tree in The Conservatory, that night we forgot time. Had we […]
