Sorry it’s taken so long to write another post, everything here has been a little hectic, so this is some of what we have been upto:
James, Howard and Stuart have finally abandoned their 7-day work weeks for the road in search of the best wines South Africa has to offer. Starting off the three spent the weekend at The Countries’ most popular wine festival – The Wacky Wine Weekend in Robertson. (Due to a competition that James had lost in the previous episode he was designated driver but he soon worked his around this one). There was rain forecast for the weekend but this didn’t deter the guys as they took full advantage of this famous Southern Cape festival.
In the episode that followed the guys decided that they were going to get a little cultural (they were really hoping to get their paws on some vintages that aren’t available in anywhere else) as they went in search of the oldest Vines in South Africa, which ended up taking them on a crazy tour, criss-crossing the Southern Cape- beginning in the centre of Cape Town, the guys then went to Groot Constantia – aouth Africa’s oldest wine estate, then Stellenbosch, where amongst other things they met with the godfather of South African wine, Spatz Sperling and finally they landed up in quite far North in Calvinia in the Klein Karoo, where some unlikely discoveries unfolded...
In the next episode the guys go to the Bastille festival in Franschhoek and look for some of the more unconventional names in wine, they visited Cabriere and chatted to their poetic Cellar Master Achim von Armin, later the three took part in a barrel rolling competition, in which James almost impaled himself. Next weekend the boys will meet up with some more big names in South African wine, who too have alternate approaches to the wine making process..
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