To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, the Stellenbosch Wine Route sent us a huge box of goodies this week so that we could enjoy the route's golden anniversary at home. The wine route was founded in 1971 when three intrepid winemakers – Spatz Sperling of Delheim, Neil Joubert of Spier and Frans Malan of Simonsig, after a visit to France, realised the marketing potential and necessity of such an endeavour, and the rest was history as it spread across our winelands to much success. Stellenbosch Wine Routes paved the way for the creation of the country’s wine tourism, an industry that contributes R7.2bn to GDP per year
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The box, individually labelled and hand delivered
The explanation.
Normally they would have invited media to a party
but, in these Covid days, it was
not possible, so we applaud their solution
The contents: Left to Right: Two Canelé pastries (of which
Lynne is very fond), two pork pies and a jar of Spicy Aubergine dip from
Joostenberg, a bottle of Simonsig Cap Classique (one of our favourites) and a
good 2015 bottle of Delheim Cabernet Sauvignon to enjoy, a bottle of tiny
pickled onions from Companiesdrift farm, Huguenot cheese portions, two round
rolls, and a jar of olives from Joostenberg. We have been enjoying things from
this trove all weekend
Thank you to all concerned; it certainly is a celebration of produce from Stellenbosch
Most Western Cape wine farms are open to visitors and to taste and buy wine. They suffered huge damage to their businesses while they were forced by the government to close for five months last year; an uninformed decision of very doubtful merit, as research is now demonstrating
So we urge
you to enjoy a day out, include a wine estate or two en route and help them to recover
from the damage,
but please be responsible if you are driving
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