Looking for a more interesting wine to serve with your desserts?

My friend Durbanville Hills cellarmaster Martin Moore suggests you serve his recently released 2008 Durbanville Hills Pinotage chilled.

We chill red wines at home and they really work well, especially if the acidity is low and the tannins are soft – they are fabulous with curry too, nice and cooling. We love it with Bobotie.

Martin is quite a dab hand in the kitchen and has been known to serve chilled Pinotage served with desserts such as baked pears, strawberries or mixed berry treats.

The 2008 Durbanville Hills Pinotage was matured for 12 months in small oak, using a combination of new and second-fill French barrels resulting in a layer of spice, star anise and a hint of citrus marmalade on the nose. Suggestions of ripe berries and cherries fill the mouth making it the ideal partner for fruity desserts and chocolate. Lindt Ecuador is great with it after dinner.

Previous vintages have won gold at the 2009 Michelangelo International Wine Awards.

The cool-climate location of Durbanville Hills in the Tygerberg overlooking Table Bay provides ideal growing conditions for this uniquely South African cultivar, a cross of Pinot noir and Cinsaut, previously known as Hermitage – which my father grew on our farm, Dagbreek, in the Durbanville Hills. Martin maintains that the Pinot Noir characteristics of these wines are typical of cooler-climate Pinotage.

The 2008 Durbanville Hills Pinotage is expected to retail for about R56 per 750ml bottle.

Please feel free to take a look at more wine reviews by Michael Olivier.

Right, power wise, this 4.0 litre V8 machine puts out a lovely 480 hp. It’s sequential, seix-speed gearbox, rims with locking and safety clips, racing ABS and, get this, optional air conditioning :P

One hit wonder, what do you think?

From the BBC: “The nomination for the internet is supported by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the founder of the $100 laptop project Nicholas Negroponte. It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win.” ~ lifehacker

Pretty neato addition don’t you think? I’d say that you should probably use gravel to suite your room, so that it doesn’t look lost on the wall, but I’m sure you know that already ;)

Keen on one? Grab it here.

Sounds pretty much like just an ok phone to me, but when you’ve got the name, you’ve got the name. The phone is built from stainless steel and 24K gold! And can you believe it, the keys are made out of sapphire crystal hand-painted with gold!

If you’re interested in one of these gorgeous devices, you can take a peak at Mobiado’s distributor list here.

IMDB says:

“Nice to see Sandra Bullock come back after the cinematic travesty, called All About Steve(2009). This was a well made film, perfectly filmed,and great performances by everybody.

Leigh Ann Tuohy(Sandra Bullock), seems to have the life most women would envy, a wonderful supporting husband(Tim Mcgraw), and two great kids(Lily Collins and Jae Head). But one day while driving home, she sees, a larger then life teenager which everybody calls Big Mike(Quinton Aaron), when she tries to talk to him, he comes across as a little withdrawn, and is nearly homeless, she decides to take him in, with her supporting family behind her. Leigh finds out his name is Michael Oher, and tries to dig up things about his past, in hopes of helping him, but the question is will she?

I really liked this film, it manages to balance humor and drama perfectly. Sandra Bullock gave quite a strong performance, so Quinton Aaron, Lyn Collin, but Jae Head is quite the scene stealer. It also has a good football scene as well. And Kathy Bates is good in her supporting role also. I say see The Blind Side.”

Looks like a good movie doesn’t it?

The premise is simple, Briget needs a new car and she’s come up with a plan to get it. Basically, she’s worked out that if 500 people each give her R260, she’ll reach her goal of R130,000 for the new car. In return, each person who sponsors her the R260 will receive a link and avatar on her website and her website will be clearly advertised on her car.

Love it!

I’ve donated R260 towards the cause and I’m challenging you to do the same, obviously if you can afford to.

Well done Briget!

If you’re keen to donate R260, then click here.

Now, if you’ve ever been to somewhere like Incredible Connection or the likes, you’ll see that wireless setups are very pricey, but today I have a great special for the product of the week!

The Logitech EX100 Cordless Desktop is a fantastic solution for anyone looking to go wireless, not only is it a great setup, it’s very inexpensive as well. The keyboard has programmable keys, it’s spill resistant and it comes with all the media controls. The mouse is 1000 dpi, which is more than enough for the average user.

These setups are going for R330 from Mr Hardware Handyman!

Previous products of the week:

• HP 615 AMD Notebook
• Samsung SyncMaster XL2370