Robertson and Wine on the River

Church St, Robertson
 
 Happy visitors on the banks of the Breede

Bernhard Hess (Mimosa Lodge, Montagu) with Bonita Malherbe (Van Loveren)

Lynne at the Zandvliet stand, buying

 Zandvliet's yellowtail and lamb chops

The Breede River

with happy cruisers on the boat

Chardonnays

matched with food

which was prepared by Zandi Beetge

Lourens van der Westhuizen of Arendsig presented the wines

Lourens with Lynne

and Rowan Beattie of Esona wines

Fun on the riverbank

After the show, the workers relaxElizma Spangenberg, Robertson Wine Valley Marketing manager
Johan de Wet, Elizma Spangenberg, Lynne, Jacques Beetge
Bonita Malherbe & Elzette Steyn, PRO for Weltevrede

next year's wine
The old carved barrel at Weltevrede

Bonnievale's butcher
Weird stuffed cow at Parmalat cheese factory, Bonnievale

It's a hog's life

A weaver building a nest at Happy Hog

Laborie, Paarl

The manor house

Janine Eybers 

Bedroom and drawing room in the manor house

Langtafel

Supper 

Our suite

Ruben looked after us very well in the Tasting Room

Johan's at Longridge

The menu

Lynne started with a seasonal garden herb salad with tempura of vegetables, tiny verjuice jelly cubes and quail eggs. Very fresh and lightly dressed in more of the Longridge verjuice, it was a deliciously light start to a meal.

John had delicate smoked trout with crème fraiche, broad beans and mint.

For mains Lynne chose the rich but not fatty belly of pork served with beetroot and broccoli with butternut chutney

and John had the very tender seared venison (kudu) fillet with potato cakes, red cabbage, apple, celeriac and sherry.

We absolutely could not resist desserts and Lynne so enjoyed her small chocolate fondue and all its wonderful accompaniments that she is going to do one at home quite soon.

 John’s Sablé, strawberries, black pepper and lemon sorbet was sensational.