Wonderful wine!

We have so far done two tours into the Cape Region’s beautiful wine district. It is incredible to discover that so many excellent vineyards seem to hide behind each and every hill.
The region has some local specialities, such as the heavily debated cross-bred grape Pinotage. Wines made from this newcomer grape can easily catch a bitter tone, but the best wine producers have learnt how to avoid through a adapted wine making process. Oddly enough, the Pinotage often has a “bushgrowing” vine which looks really funny crawling along the ground.


A few of the best estates we’ve visited so far in the Stellenbosch region:

Rustenberg
A huge estate that is culturally protected, which means that all renovations needs to, and have been, made with great care. Rustenberg produces excellent white wines and their Chardonnay quickly became Sara’s favorite.

Kanonkop
The name of this vineyard means “the cannon on the hill”. Their speciality is their Pinotage wines, which are excellent.

Laibach
On New Year’s Eve we tried a Pinotage from the Stellenbosch producer Laibach. The taste then led us to the estate, which turned out to be a friendly little producer.

The main question now is how to get so much great wine back to Sweden.

http://www.kanonkop.co.za/
http://www.rustenberg.co.za/
http://www.laibachwines.com/