Tasty grapes of Stellenbosch
on Rob Wootton (Zambia), 09/Mar/2011 17:00, 34 days ago
To escape (or sadly leave) Cape Town we hired a little Chevrolet Spark (a toy like car) and travelled to Stellenbosch which is less than an hour's drive away in a spectacular setting surrounded by vineyards and mountains. By 11am we were signed up to a tour of four vineyards and enjoying our first swirling, sniffing and slurping of wine. It was not just reds, whites, rose and something sparkling but olive oil, olives, tapenade and cheese that we got to try too. I resisted buying any wine despite being much better value than Zambia but was tempted by some of the cheese. For the record we went to the vineyards of Tokara, Dieu Donne, Solms Delta and Fairview, and they were a wide variety from upmarket to pretentious to simply good fun. The views were of olive trees, grapes on the vines and mountains all basked in warm sunshine. In the evening Marco and I returned to Tokara for a wonderful meal (my sweet tooth loved the white chocolate ice cream and raspberry sorbet) and more great views (the lights of Cape Town shone in the distance).