While I am not much of a consumer of wine, I do like to explore the culture of California farms and wineries. The girlfriend and I took a day trip to Temecula Valley to explore one of the closest wine country locations to Los Angeles. It was a bit of a rainy day so the fields and vineyards were not all that great, but it also kept the crowds away. Since most of the...
I have a 2-week work trip in Johannesburg and decided to take the 90 min flight to Cape Town for a nice weekend. While the mother city is currently experiencing a water shortage, they have no shortage of wine. Here are a few highlights.
We did a little bit of chocolate tasting as well…
It was also fun to see some traditional winemaking.
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Today I took a wine tour in the Stellenbosch region. I never knew that there was a wine culture in South Africa. According to history, the Dutch and the French had a large influence on bringing wine making to this area in the late 1600s. Honestly, I’ve never been all that interested in Wine. During my years of bicycling around the Lake Erie region I usually...