Food and wine now come on is there Anything better Well no there isn’t while we’ve Rightfully been concentrating on star Wine makers And our very clever nominators in this Edition we have a food filter on Yum yum our gastronomic focus takes us To uruguay and if you’ve not visited This dynamic Nation you’re missing out on wines that Are refined And yes food that is divine the varietal In question is the big v Bionye and the antipodean opponent That one up why don’t you is presented By tech entrepreneur who recently became A cape fine master No more clues of course it’s south Africa As old as wine is competition and our Competition is head to head Kinda like fight club Battle of the wines 100 wine experts put their reputations On the line What they should they tell you what to Drink we celebrate all the amazing Winemakers they select to battle And the all-important judges come from The competing nations So what do all these wine loving people Have in common Including the wine loving celebrities
Who will soon join this global game Well like you they are whiny people so Let’s meet some of them Mercedes de cass had to find her voice In the family business And matchy wisely chose food and we Asked her to whip up a dish to match the Establishment One eco bodegons del sur vionier Vineyard select 2018. phew what a mouthful Easier to drink than say i promise you So now we are gonna make a dish Salmon ravioli which the salmon is is Has this fatty it has volume and it’s Christmas In in the mouth with a sauce of butter Also they are having the duality the Part of the Of the chromosity and the fat but then We’re gonna cut This and go straight to the other way With lemon we’re gonna cut the lemon and Just put it Raw inside the the pasta and also we Have Very nice perfume of flowers so we’re Going to put the same flowers we can Smell in the wine the winemaker at Familia de cass is adriana gutierrez Who works alongside mechi’s brother Santiago Who is also the wise nominator and also Part of the team is my my little sister
Meichi she’s a chef she studied in France in the gordon blue And she is also sommelier so she works With us And helped us make the food pairing with The wine And some special food we work this wine With adriana gutierrez which is our Chief winemaker And she has a lot of experience in this Kind of wines and we know That the skin of this wine is very Difficult to work with You have to be very careful not to Extract too much Since whereas if you do it the right way As Adrena does it it has this freshness and These very fine flavors A voila these big family lunches are a Regular occurrence and like I said this crew live very very well So who do adriana santiago and mecci Battle The robeston region in south africa and Yaakov Recently qualified as a cape wine master Yaakov presents a bianye from the Esteemed durensing I love this wine you’ll see when i pour In the gloss the color is absolutely Beautiful This is a fantastic example of what a Vienna should be this is a single
Cultivar From a single vineyard block on the Orange form just look at that color Absolutely beautiful gold yellow This is fantastic the wine maker of this Golden beauty Is lauren’s van der westhousen lawrence Van der west who’s Now isn’t that an elegant name lauren’s Winery is orencig Which literally translates from Afrikaans to english As the eagle’s view and our trusty drone Shows out the breed river which as well As providing a cooling influence in the Robiston region Has gradually deposited a range of soils Suitable for various varietals And also created layers of elevation Allowing lauren’s different meso and Micro climates to play in You know everyone needs to watch out for These south africans they just keep Making Awesome wine so in the face of lockdowns Prohibition And the tyranny and blessings of Distance beware the rainbow nation Uruguay versus south africa vionier a Gold standard of wine making The judging to come in montevideo and Cape town Subscribe to the battle of the wines Youtube channel follow us on instagram
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