A 5-Course Gin-Paired Dinner at Cellars-Hohenort

Are you ready to step out of your wine-with-dinner routine and discover pairings that will broaden your horizons and delight your taste buds? If so, walk this way… The Cellars-Hohenort is hosting a “Meet the Maker” dinner, during which Musgrave premium artisanal spirits will be served fine-dining style with a five-course menu.

Tegan Smith

Simone Musgrave, the founder (and a vanguard of the gin revolution in South Africa back in 2015), will co-host the event with the hotel’s executive chef, Tronette Dippenaar. Inspired by the African botanical flavour profiles of two gins and two brandies, she has dreamt up some appealing dishes to complement the drinks.

The drinks

The Musgrave range, which is hand-crafted in small batches in Cape Town, includes the Original gin (with 11 botanicals inspired by ancient African spice routes, including cardamom, peppery grains of paradise and African ginger) and the Pink gin – the first rose-hued gin to be made in South Africa.

Tegan Smith

Musgrave’s Copper range of pot-still brandies reimagines the traditional template, and is subtly infused with rare ingredients – a rich winter honey found in Zambian forests or African vanilla.

The menu

The evening starts off with a pre-dinner canapé – asparagus and pea risotto arancini – with a gin cocktail. (It’s called the Spektre, but we’ll leave its recipe as a surprise.) Musgrave’s pink gin perfectly matches the first course, a sea bass ceviche, while a Gina Colada is the ideal creamy, cooling accompaniment for the king prawn curry on cardamom-infused sticky rice.

A smoked, honey-glazed duck breast with wild mushrooms and liquorice jus finds a fascinating partner in the Musgrave Black Honey brandy. Then, the pink gin appears again, this time plain and simple on ice, with a dessert that combines passion fruit and chocolate three ways. A final nightcap, the Musgrave Vanilla brandy, is enjoyed with a citrus-and-vanilla-bean bonbon.

This gourmet dinner, with its scent-sational ingredients and flavour profiles, is redolent of history, pioneering adventure, African safaris and old-school glamour… Enjoying it in The Greenhouse of the Cellars-Hohenort Hotel, which itself has a long and storied history (and where many a G&T has been enjoyed by its visitors), is a masterful pairing too.

Date 8 April 2022
Cost R595
Contact 021 794 2137, coordinator@cellars-hohenort.co.za
Where to find it 93 Brommersvlei Road, Constantia Heights, Cape Town
Enquire Now

Discover all of the Cape’s hidden gems – subscribe to our weekly newsletter.