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GIVE THIS TO A FRIEND: CÉCILE & BOYD SCENTED CANDLE
ED’S PICK: NGWENYA GLASS
From humble beginnings as a
The ever-popular
lifestyle store, Cécile & Boyd has
Copa G&T glasses and
grown to encompass interior
beautiful tall champagne flutes
and wine bottles collected from
design, architectural concepts
from Ngwenya Glass are perfect
all over Swaziland/Eswatini. It
and creative direction. They also
for celebrating life and love!
takes up to 12 people to make
have some exquisite homeware
Ngwenya Glass products are all
each glass, and everything is
products like this luxurious hand-
handmade using 100% recycled
done by hand. Go on, be loyal
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glass – old jam jars, soft drink
to local!
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DRINK THIS: THE PRODIGY
“The lighter fruit-driven style of
R430 per unit.
Long famous for its revolutionary
The Prodigy perfectly ticks the
‘coffee-chocolate’ Pinotage,
box for everyday enjoyment,” says
Diemersfontein wine estate
Francois Roode, cellarmaster and
READ THIS: THE LAST HUNT BY DEON MEYER
outside Wellington is proving
winemaker at Diemersfontein.
it’s a no one-trick-pony when
South African staples – bobotie,
“The undisputed champion of South African
it comes to this iconic South
bunny chow and braai – all beg for
crime,” as Wilbur Smith has called Deon Meyer,
African cultivar, with the release
a glass of Pinotage. Its versatility
is back with a cold case for Captain Benny
of a third Pinotage in the range,
makes it a great partner with roast
Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks – not
THE PRODIGY. The much-loved
duck, lamb casseroles and even
what they were looking for. And a difficult case
coffee and chocolate notes of the
chocolate soufflé. Serve it slightly
too, surrounded by mystery, lies and evasion.
Original Diemersfontein Pinotage
chilled. R75 per bottle.
The body of Johnson
make it a wine worth savouring.
Johnson, ex-cop, has been found by the side of a railway
16
line. He appears to
progress and others are intent on
have jumped from
muddying the waters. Meanwhile
the world’s most
in Bordeaux, Daniel Darret is
luxurious train,
settled in a new life on a different
and two suspicious
continent. But his skills as an
a race against time – for the
characters seen
international hit-man are required
Hawks to stop the assassination,
with him have
one more time, and Daniel is given
for Daniel to evade the relentless
disappeared into
no choice in the matter. He must
Russian agents tracking him,
thin air. The regular
hunt again. His prey? The corrupt
for Benny Griessel to survive
police have already
president of his homeland. Two
long enough to finally ask Alexa
failed to make
strands of the same story become
Bernard to marry him... •
SILVER DIGEST // SUMMER 2019
