A few weekends agp my friend Margs came to visit. Besides being a great friend, she is also a great lover of wine and is super clued up on all things fermented! We made it our mission to squeeze in as many farms as possible in the 30 odd hours we had together. What made the tastings great was that neither of us had been to any of the 4 farms that we visited, so it was an awesome weekend of discovering new spots.
We started our journey off at Waterkloof - in the Somerset West / Helderburg region - an area that I was not at all familiar with and probably the nicest surprise of the weekend. What an amazing, modern farm with a stunning restaurant where we enjoyed a fabulous meal. Featured in Modern Wineries of South Africa, this farm didn't disappoint - perched on top of a hill, with an awesome view from it's modern façade, Waterkloof is definitely a farm I'll be visiting again soon as I didn't buy any wine from there so will have to be back!
Next up was Ernie Els. I was initially hesitant thinking that it would be another commercial farm because of it's famous owner. But boy was I wrong! An awesome farm, with amazing views and great (albeit expensive) wines...the cute "golfer" servers didn't hurt either ;-) Day 2 saw us visiting Warwick and Rustenburg. Warwick, know for it's family picnics and First Lady wines was our first stop and I left with a lovely bottle of their Pinotage. Rustenberg, one of the oldest farms in the Cape Winelands, hiddenon the base of Helshoogte was a lovely place to end our weekends' tasting. We picked up a couple of lovely bottles here including their Straw Wine - a lovely desert wine - which was a thank you for our trusty designated driver ;-)
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