The winery buildings are impressive with their Cape-Dutch architecture, including thatched roofs and couple of hundred year old histories
You can see the truck on the label of this bottle of port. They don't use the word Port here as that is supposed to be limited to Portuguese wines. In South Africa they call it Cape Ruby.
Here I am proudly displaying one of my newly purchased bottles of port.
To keep everyone somewhat sober, they offer some nice mixed plates to help the wine go down.
You gotta keep these guys out of the vines.
The valley is surrounded by these cloud covered peaks.
California dreaming.
If I understand correctly, all the vineyards are started with a generic grape. Then when the vine gets older than a toddler, they put signs into the fields to encourage it to morph into the type of grape needed for the wine they wish to produce.
Massey Ferguson 35X, probably a 1960's model that has hauled a lot of grapes.
We visited the Huguenot Museum, but decided not to enter this room.
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After we got back from playing in the wine gardens, we went to work on Georgia. Hauled on the slipway in the Royal Cape Yacht Club. Dropped the rudder for inspection, changed out a through hull valve, painted the bottom and waxed the hull. Out on Monday, back in on Friday. We're happy with that. Now tucked back in the V&A Waterfront marina with the seals and otters and other cruisers.
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