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Good Food and Wine Show

sulandi — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:23:42 +0000

We had a fantastic time at the Good Food and Wine show over the weekend in Cape Town. Cavendish Square featured the Parlotones Wines as part of their wine tasting section in the VIP lounge. Cape Wine Master and great friend to us, Allan Mullins, did a radio interview and wine tasting live on Cape Talk. Visitors of the show also had an oppertunity to partake in a winetasting, with Allan gracefully guiding them through all the wines.

We had the privilage of seeing Jonathan Daddia from Masterchef Australia in action and had the chance to pose with him for a photograph.

We indeed had some good food and great wine!

We call this dancing bottling

sulandi — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:29:26 +0000

Eben Sadie about his winemaking philosophy

sulandi — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:55:56 +0000

How do you film Eben Sadie? Actually, he’s a little bit like Chuck Norris…you don’t tell Eben how you’re going to film him, he tells you. We got up 4am in order to start filming at 6am. He talks so much, that by about 10am my hard drive was full, and my CPU about to overheat. This guy is a legend, and to sum up the one day of filming with Eben, one would need at least ten days of writing. You might have to wait a while for this film, as all that talking makes filming a dream, but editing a nightmare. A film not to be missed.

Pieter Walser – on both sides of the camera.

sulandi — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:03:23 +0000

We asked Pieter Walser what he thought of his Hands on Wine Rock Star film:
Making a film about myself was at the same time both easy and really challenging, as there’s no limitations to what you can do. Xaver and myself decided to travel back in time in order to produce a movie that looks like it was filmed over a period of ten years. We used some old footage, but most of the filming was shot in one (long) day. Here are some picture of the day. To view the finished product, have a look on Pieter’s page.

Kirstenbosch Rocked!!

sulandi — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:31:58 +0000

We invited 50 of our friends to join us for the Parlotones concert at Kirstenbosch on Monday 22 March. Needless to say, it was awesome. Great company, fantastic music and even better wine! Thank you to all who shared the evening with us.

Its a Wrap!!

sulandi — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:26:02 +0000

The Parlotones Push me to the Floor wine video was filmed on Monday 16 March 2009 on the wine farm Romond outside of Somerset West. Film director Andre Liebenberg and his wife Rhona, was so kind to let us use their beautiful farm and wine cellar as location for the shoot. Andre also played the role of assistant director to Xaver Walser.

It was a long day of shooting with the band and a even longer evening for the dancers, but fun was had by all. Many bottles of Push me to the Floor and Giant Mistake helped to sooth our thirsts and it also reminded us of a time we felt inspired….to dance!

Duwayne Smith from Alchemy Images spent the day with us capturing the magic on camera.

The film is currently in the editing stages but will be featuring here soon.

Rehearsals, Rehearsals…

sulandi — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:54:50 +0000

A lot of preperation (or perspiration) and hard work went into the Push me to the Floor wine film. Due to time restraints, we had to have everything perfect for the day of the shooting. Here are our fantastic dancers who represented members of the media in the 1920′s rehearsing their routine under the cracking wip of film director Xaver Walser.

We are so sorry the owl did not survive

sulandi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:43:49 +0000

We had a fabulous visit with winemaker Lourens van der Westhuizen and his beautiful wife Lizelle on his family farm Arendsig, just outside of Robertson. Welcoming us was the latest addition to their (brand new) family; a St Barnard puppy called Boerseun . Don’t let the word puppy fool you – this guy is not at all that little and most definitely the king of his castle.

The couple spoiled us with good food, great company and fantastic wine – Arendsig originals offcourse (we will be featuring one of these babies in our portfolio very soon). Lourens’s original cellar is now used as a beautiful tasting/dining room and also hosted their wedding in December – breathtaking scenery completes this perfect picture. Fun was had by all, until it was time to head home…

On our way back we hit a bird (we thought it was a duck) with our minibus. After freaking out and turning around to see if there is anything we can do to save the animal, we learned that it was indeed an owl. Siskha generously offered her pashmina to wrap the owl in to keep warm while Steve sat holding it in his arms, cradling it like a baby. We arranged to meet the SPCA at Worcester and just as we pulled up, the owl awoke kicking and screaming. A bite on the finger later, Steve managed to hand the owl over to its caretaker - pashmina and all. It was a very heartfelt rescuing effort and we were all very positive that the owl will survive. Unfortunately we learned the next day that our friend did not make it after all. Very sad indeed.

Visiting the mothership of SA vineyards

sulandi — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:51:55 +0000

On 19 February the Hands on Wine team took our partners at Woolworths to visit our good friends the Bosmans in Hermanus.
We had the priviledge to visit the clonal garden where they nurture various clones of grape varietals. This garden is magic! We got to taste the fig and the guava in various grapes and were treated to a magnificent lunch in the forest.

Push me to the floor gets bottled

sulandi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:10:21 +0000

Specially for you, a sneak preview of this fabulous new product. Push me to the floor is finalised and bottled, ready to be released. You will see that all but the font lable is visible in these photos – very much on purpose of course. We do not want reveal it all just yet…