This is one we
never like to miss. Held in the gardens at Muratie you can drink their wines
accompanied by lovely simple but satisfying food and enjoy the live music with
lots of your friends
A
warm welcome from Michelle Stewart who markets Muratie’s wines
And
an old (young!) friend, Robbie Wallace, who is studying wine at Elsenburg and
helping out on Muratie for the day, brings us our lunch hamper. His parents,
Nicky and Paul, make the Black Dog Malbec at Wallovale in Elgin among their
many other activities in making and marketing wine
It
was filled with ripe cheeses, grapes from the vineyard, fresh figs, wonderful
sourdough bread and butter
Queuing
for lunch. There were huge beef hamburgers with all the fixings and chips -
John had one of those
You
could have spring rolls and samoosas with a dipping sauce
Lots
of fun for the children, grape stomping
And
the adults. Very messy, sticky business
And
a bit backbreaking, which is why we now have powered grape presses
In
the historic cellar with those spider webs which are national monuments
The
rustic tasting room
We
had a lovely table under the trees
Michelle
doing the rounds of the media and her guests, who buy the wine for their shops
and restaurants. She had magnums of the
Laurens Campher red and white wines
Lunch
You
could have a port wine and tonic cooler. They were very popular and one of the crew had to rush off to buy more tonic. Muratie has plenty of Port
And
the music was cool dude great. Rather reminiscent of Cream and Eric Clapton
and thirsty work for the musos
Lynne's
lunch was a smoked salmon and cream cheese open sandwich. Totally what she
wanted
John’s
burger and fries
We
so enjoyed lunch with, first, a glass of the Lady Alice MCC Cap Classique and
then the very satisfying Laurens Campher
White blend of 46% Chenin Blanc, 27% Sauvignon Blanc, 19% Verdelho and 8%
Viognier, which is great with food
The
friendly faces behind the wine counter, Robbie Wallace, Marissa Groenewald and a friend
A
lovely, lazy Saturday wine festival
Lots
of Lady Alice MCC cooling
The
band played on
Michelle
and Jean-Mari Strauss with more wine, red this time
The
superb view of Table Mountain from Muratie
Thank
you all for a lovely relaxed festival with great wine and good, simple food
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