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Blending my own wine!

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March 16th 2012
So, what's on offer in this wonderful wine valley? Well, one fun activity that I experienced recently, is to go to Excelsior Wine Estate and learn how to blend, bottle & label my own wine! Excelsior has a stunning setting for tasting wine too - a little wooden house on stilts balancing over a lovely farm dam with views over the vineyards to the Langeberg mountains in the distance - sublime! ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Robertson

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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