Creation Wine and Food Pairing

Wine Village is situated at the foot of the Hemel-en-Aarde (Heaven and Earth) Road. This road has become known for its’ natural beauty and award winning wines that are produced from the clay-rich, stony soils, and cool climate being unusually close to the South Atlantic Ocean.

One of the many wine producers that stand out is Creation Wines, situated 18km from the Wine Village on the Hemel-en-Aarde Road (the R320). 

Our team attended one of the famous wine and food pairing experiences at Creation Wines. They have put one of the most remote cellars in the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge on the map as a gourmet destination - by offering some of the most sublime wine and food pairings.  

The winemakers, JC Martin and Christoph Kaser, along with Carolyn Martin and the rest of the team give you an experience that is close to heaven on earth! Their tasting room shows how it should be done and the views and welcoming atmosphere makes the trip out there worth it!  

André van Vuuren, owner and chef of one of the local restaurants in Hermanus, Season To Taste, is responsible for the delectable food creations that make their way on to the plate with the wine and food pairing and the rest of the menu for Creation’s tasting room. 
For bookings to Season click here.

You can look forward to Asian salmon dumplings,  spicy chicken and apricot satay, cauliflower soup, springbok rillete with cherry jelly, bobotie spring rolls…to name only a few.  Each of the wines is paired with a particular bite to enhance both the flavour of the wine and the food. 

To book a tasting or for directions to the farm click here.

 

QR Codes

The wine industry has always been innovative and in today’s fast moving world you have to keep up or you will quickly fall behind in the masses!

QR Codes are the latest craze in the wine industry as more and more wine producers are adding these codes to their labels.

QR-Codes are being used world-wide to provide information to consumers in a quick, easy and accessible format. QR-Codes are an image which is printed on a product or label which can be photographed or scanned by a (smart) mobile phone and is then a quick link to a web page/mobi page, without having to type in the website address.

By placing a QR-Code (Quick Response Codes) on say a back label, a wine producer can supply much more detailed information about their wine, directly to the consumer, at the time of purchase.

If you do not have a QR or barcode reader on your mobile phone you will need to download one from your ‘Android Market’, ‘BlackBerry App-world’, ‘I Phone Store’ or similar site depending on your phone.

You then hold your phone’s camera over the square until your phone beeps.  Within a few seconds, the home page will open on your phone’s screen and you can scroll through the information on the web pages.  Hence the name Quick Response Code

Many of our local wine producers have now added these codes to their labels. Ataraxia, Creation and Hermanuspietersfontein are just a few who have taken the step in their marketing approach.