Nederburg creates culinary journey to celebrate Tour de France

South Africa’s Nederburg wine estate has created a culinary journey to celebrate the route of the 2018 Tour de France, with 11 dishes each matched to a different wine from the property.

Using wine-and-food-pairing expert, Katinka van Niekerk, Nederburg is launching a series of French-inspired recipes to reflect cuisine and ingredients authentic to the regions through which the professional cyclists will ride.

This culinary journey following the route of the 2018 Tour de France showcases 11 recipes, each presented with a matching Nederburg wine.

The Tour de France is known as the world’s most iconic road cycling race. Now in its 105^th year, the 2018 race is made up of 21 stages and will cover a gruelling distance of 3,351 kilometers. It runs from 7 to 29 July.

Nederburg, established in 1791, is the exclusive premium wine partner of Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka, Africa’s pro-cycling team who will again be competing in this year’s Tour de France, for the fourth consecutive time.

They pedal to raise awareness and funds for Qhubeka, a non-profit organisation that uplifts communities via the distribution of custom-built bicycles through affiliate programmes. Qhubeka is an Nguni word that means “to progress”.

Consumers can show their backing for Team Dimension Data and Qhubeka during this year’s Tour de France by picking up a bottle of Nederburg, and enjoying Katinka’s recipes.

They can also help raise support for Qhubeka by participating in the “ForQhubeka” fundraising drive. The five unique fundraising categories, each offering a range of tools to support the chosen fundraising activity, are: Party ForQhubeka, Climb ForQhubeka, Movie ForQhubeka, Play ForQhubeka and Sweat ForQhubeka. Click here to get involved and register your own personal ForQhubeka fundraising initiative.