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The South African Cheese Festival celebrates its 18th anniversary this year from April 26 to 28, 2019 at Sandringham outside Stellenbosch.
According to Johan Ehlers, CEO of organisers Agri-Expo, has hosted the festival since 2002, the festival is a platform for visitors to taste, buy and enjoy cheese and complementary products from about 150 exhibitors, and to test entrepreneurs' innovative creations – "from insect ice cream to abalone pie".
The festival, furthermore, offers an opportunity to a number of small cheese makers to introduce their unique handmade products to the up to 30 000 visitors as part of the #Support #SmallCheeseMakers project in partnership with the Western Cape Department of Agriculture (WCDoA) and Absa.
Also on the programme are SA's Top Ten Chenin Blanc in collaboration with Standard Bank; and cheese-and-wine tastings by Fairview's chief winemaker Anthony de Jager and owner Charles Back.
In the "Cape Made: Taste the Alternatives" Mall, there will be a selection of niche and alternative products such as pomegranates, chillies and periwinkle to choose from plus bargains directly from entrepreneurs thanks to a partnership with the WCDoA.
In the "Cape Made Kitchen" there will be three daily demonstrations where chefs of the Private Hotel School will demonstrate specially developed recipes pairing cheese with bread and alternative products.
No tickets will be available at the gates. Tickets are available at Computicket, Shoprite and Checkers.
