Durbanville Hills Gives Jamie Kennedy a South African Makeover

For a tasting event by Durbanville Hills at Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner Museum, McNabb Roick Events used a variety of decor elements to bring the winery’s South African homeland to life. The main piece, from National Sign and Design, featured a series of printed floor-to-ceiling panels covering the windows that depicted picturesque Table Mountain. As well, rustic sand coloured linen from Lux Linens topped rectangular dining tables, complemented by brown wooden chiavari chairs from Chair-man Mills. Large cream-coloured pillar candles in glass containers with dark wooden bases were filled with river rocks, and trios of centrepieces held  fresh bamboo, wild dessert blooms, and twigs and branches, all set in various printed wooden containers. “The Gardiner was an easy choice for a venue because it is so similar in design and aesthetic to our wonderful home on South Africa,” said Toni Hamilton Edwards, senior product manager with Peter Mielzynski Agencies, distributor of Durbanville Hills wines in Canada. “The addition of the prints on the windows was icing on the cake.”
Jamie Kennedy offered the approximately 40 guests appetizers such as smoked whitefish canape and skewered lemongrass shrimp before proceeding to the tasting menu. The four-course meal included a Dungeness crab bisque amuse-bouche, confit of duck with cider poached apples, braise and roast of lamb with sheep’s milk cheese, and wild leek gratin with morel sauce. Dessert was a poached sugar pear with a chocolate and rhubarb glaze. Naturally, each serving was paired with a different Durbanville Hills wine.