Boules on the lawn outside
the Webb family house on Thelema
One of the most perfect
views from anyone’s terrace
Gyles Webb braaiing
those boerewors sausages for the tasting
Thomas Webb at the tasting
table with avid tasters
Kyle Martin and his wife Sjanel.
Kyle represents John Collins, who distributes Thelema’s Sutherland wines
All that wine tasting is
making us hungry
Gyles demonstrates the
gentle art of braaiing in old oil drums
Discussing wine and the
market under the trees and in front of a magnificent showing of tall hydrangeas, known as Christmas
flowers in the Cape.
One of the Webb family’s
elegant Weimaraners.
The textbooks say their temperament is: Aloof, Stubborn, Intelligent, Alert, Steady, Energetic,
Powerful, Fast
Discussing the dog!
Discussing the food
Father and son enjoying
the tasting
Say cheese! Ludwig and Lodine
Maske of La Cotte Inn Wines/Fromages de France in Franschhoek with their sons
How to make a good
ice-cream cone
Alison Digby of Manuka
wines and Lynne get busy making ice-cream cones for the boys
as the sun sets over the
misty mountains...
... we line up to taste
more of these great wines
The highlight of the
evening, Thomas presents their 1994 Bubbly made from Chardonnay. This was for
tasting only, rather than sales, because there is rather a lot of bottle
variation due to the age of the wine. The bottles tasted were superb. Very much
to the ‘gout Anglaise”.
The whole line-up for the
tasting. We tried but we could not manage to taste them all.
The view from the top of
Helshoogte, out over Stellenbosch, and further to the Cape Flats towards the
Cape Peninsula mountains, with the sparkling lights and the beautiful sunset as
we left.
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2012
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