As a wine and food commentator, I am fortunate to be invited to some pretty awesome wine functions.  Fortunately these happen usually in some of Cape Town’s leading restaurants where chefs go all out to showcase their dishes to a group of people who certainly appreciate what is put before them.  Jos Baker, the doyenne of food and wine writers in South Africa, and in my view a living National Treasure, once said to me “the wine is there in the bottle, you have to bring the food to it.”

I have recently attended two such functions at Dear Me, a restaurant in Longmarket Street

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Thanks for the wonderful post Michael!

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