Cellarmasters in the Kitchen by Wendy Toerien

Author:Wendy Toerien
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-43230-140-8
Publisher: Random House Struik
Published: 2012-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Serves 8

WINE PAIRING

Flagstone Mary Le Bow [red blend]

‘This is a great comfort food recipe that’s basically cholesterol free but still quite delicious.’

Teddy Hall

VINTAGE 14

‘Passion is not enough to be a good winemaker; one needs the financial will to make great wine, good terroir and the propensity not to stuff up!’

The names of Teddy Hall’s wines evoke some very colourful characters from the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Cape Dutch colony. ‘They were all anti-heroes; I identify with that.’

Hercùles van Loon (his Cabernet Sauvignon) was an apparently cuckolded pastor and wine grower in Stellenbosch who may have died by his own hand. Dr Jan Cats (his Chenin Blanc Reserve) was a medical practitioner whose practice in preserved Dorp Street was conveniently, if discouragingly, directly opposite the mortuary. Sybrand Mankadan (his Chenin Blanc) was a theologian, comforter of the sick and teacher whose love of women and wine caused some consternation among strait-laced locals.

Then there is Jan Blanx (his Super White Cuvée blend), an insubordinate soldier under Jan van Riebeeck, first commander of the Dutch settlement at the Cape. Blanx’s escapades and misadventures regularly had him lashed and once even keelhauled. And finally Hendrik Biebouw (his Auction Reserve Chenin Blanc), who, when arrested for drunk and disorderly behaviour and castigated by the Stellenbosch landdrost, a German immigrant, defiantly yelled: ‘Ik ben een Afrikaander!’ [I am an Afrikaner or African!]

Teddy has as much fun choosing and researching the names for his labels as he does sourcing the grapes for his Teddy Hall ‘fine wine personified’. He is focussed on Stellenbosch, leasing vineyards from local growers and renting cellar space to make his wines. And he’s embraced the heart of this historic university winelands town in all ways: home is a chic, cosy apartment just off Dorp Street.

‘I originally wanted to call my wines Dorp Street, but when researching further I came upon the history of all these fascinating people associated with the historic hub of this beautiful winelands town.’

Like many of them, Teddy is a bit of an adventurer: his wine consulting has taken him to such far-flung places as Israel where, in 2007, he made wine at filmmaker Ze’ev Dunie’s fledgling Sea Horse Winery.

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