December 27, 2013
Wine Country.
Gorgeous rugged wine land.
With beautiful vineyards comes adorable little towns with rivers running through them. Naturally.
"Brunch".
Route 62 is rumored to be the longest wine route in the world. That fact, in itself, was enough for M and I to put this stretch of the country on our itinerary.
Basing ourselves in Swellendam, we spent two glorious days hopping from winery to winery, sipping wine, making wine (see below), floating on a river while drinking wine, and shopping for wine. While perhaps not for everyone, it would be hard to not see the beauty in this region of the country (although perhaps that's the wine-googles speaking? No, no I don't think it is). We covered everywhere from Calitzdorp, Ladysmith and Barrydale to Montagu, Robertson and Ashton….wine, wine and more wine.
It wasn't tough in these parts to find a vineyard serving an incredible lunch, and the views were easy to feast our eyes on while we waited for our food.
Making wine. Well, okay, we were mixing wine. Still, a very cool process! We learned that we need more Merlot than we first thought we did…really though, don't we all need more Merlot?
What's better than a wine and chocolate pairing at 9am? A river cruise complete with bubbly at 10am.
Some of the 20 odd bottles we managed to fit into the Getz…bottoms up!
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