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What we’re drinking this week: Signature Cap Classique Vintage Reserve Brut
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The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs in Africa is a grand book, not least because it does a divine…
What we’re drinking this week: Kanonkop Kadette Dry Pinotage Rosé
The Currency team never needs an excuse to load the fridge with bottles of rosé and settle in for a sunny afternoon of chilling,…
What the chef ordered: Phil Carmichael from Mill St Bistro
His career has spanned training under French culinary giant Michel Roux Jnr at iconic La Gavroche in London to opening Gordon Ramsay’s Maze Restaurant…
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This week the Woolworths WCellar buying team picked a juicy merlot. With notes of dark cherries and cacao, it sounds like dessert in a…
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