Cap Classique

The "Champagne" ages in the bottle. This process helps remove the extra yeast from floating in the wine. These are hand-turned twice a day, every day for 8 weeks. You can do it by machine in 5 days, but I guess if you have space to do 8,000 more bottles by hand, why not?

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August 20th 2009
Finally, another blog. Turns out motivation for these things is not as high as I thought it’d be. Here are a few updates from life in the Bosch. Fun stuff: The carnivore inside me roared the other weekend when we returned to one of my favorite places: Mzoli’s Meat. It’s an outdoor restaurant where literally all they sell is meat. You go inside to the butcher attached, select your ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more

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