On the way to lunch at Jordan, our friends asked to
revisit De Morgenzon. They loved the tasting they had there last year and are
in awe at the gardens and the featured vineyard, where Baroque music soothes the
vines
The wine farm's office is
inside the old traditional Cape Dutch building
We spotted winemaker Carl van
der Merwe standing in the doorway and he came over to chat. We hear that the
harvest has been excellent. Now he has the really hard work, making their
excellent wines
Vines on the far hill, now
picked, are putting on their autumn colours
The tasting room is in the
building next door
We had had very welcome rain
that morning so chose to sit indoors for the tasting, as the outside benches
were a little damp
Some of the wines we tasted. We
are never disappointed by the quality and our friends bought some Sauvignon
Blanc and Chenin Blanc. Lynne was enchanted by the 2014 Grenache Noir and
invested in a box of six, which will take up residence in our cellar for a couple
of years. Full of wild dark licorice and rhubarb flavours, some spice, with
good wood and tannin for structure
Lynne was delighted to see
lotus growing in the dam. She would like it to grow in our koi pond (once our
swimming pool)
And water lilies - yellow ...
... and pink
A perfect lotus flower with its
distinctive leaves and unusual seed pods
An open blossom. It is a sacred
flower in the East. In the classical written and oral literature of many Asian
cultures the lotus is present in figurative form, representing elegance,
beauty, perfection, purity and grace, being often used in poems and songs as an
allegory for ideal feminine attributes. And many parts of the plant can be
eaten
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2017
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