Lighten our darkness… the prayer we used to recite at evening prayers at school. Those of us who live in Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard have had it answered – temporarily. Because the Formula E motor race was held in our vicinity yesterday, and power had to be available to charge the batteries of the cars, we have had continuous electricity for just over a week, but we are not holding our breath and expecting it to continue. It has had its downside. The race track was created from some of the streets in Mouille Point and Green Point, around the Cape Town Stadium. This meant that all traffic was diverted to a restricted number of streets. The congestion was awful. We went to Franschhoek on Friday morning. It took nearly 40 minutes to travel the 2 Km from our home to the CBD and getting home was a similar story. However, the coverage of the race gave huge exposure to our beautiful city and will, we hope, bring more tourists… if the “government” doesn’t wreck it.
Today, we tell you about two lovely wine estate experiences and, sadly, have written about the death of a South African wine icon.
Each harvest, Gary and Kathy Jordan invite media and trade to visit them, hear about this year's harvest and taste some of the results. We were so pleased to hear from both Kathy and Gary about the past year. Read on...
Brookdale Estate launches their new Bistro
Last year, we were invited to Brookdale Wine Estate in Paarl
to meet their young and talented winemaker Kiara Scott and to taste the excellent
award winning wines she produces. We also met the chef Gary Coetzee and his
wife Yvonne, the General Manager, who told us that they were building him a
larger restaurant next to the new wine cellar and we would be invited to sample
it when it opened, which it did at the beginning of February. This week we
received the invitation. Read on...
A South African wine revolution started in the 1960s when a few bright young men worked at Stellenbosch Farmers Winery and Nederburg. The wine industry was rigidly controlled by the KWV, who set quotas which determined the size of the crops grape farmers were permitted to make and the varietals they were allowed to grow. There were very few individual wine producing estates and SFW and the KWV bought most of the crop. Read on...
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