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Cape Bottle Room, the United States' only strictly South African wine bar, takes its name from the Western Cape, a province of South Africa that's home to many of the country's most celebrated ...
“Cape” is a geographical term that is often applied to wine. A cape is a large piece of land that sticks out into the sea from the coast. If you look at South Africa on a map ... a Western Cape and an ...
You can’t help but be stunned by the visual splendor when walking around the Western Cape region of South ... learn all aspects of making good South African wine, popping over to help out ...
The story of South African wine starts in 1655 with a few scraggly vines of muscadel planted in the shadow of Table Mountain. At the time, the Cape of Good Hope (today’s Cape Town) was a bare ...
White South Africans control a vast majority of the country’s wine industry. But it’s growing increasingly possible to support Black winemakers and owners. By John Eligon John Eligon covers ...
Cathrine Todd is a New York City-based writer who focuses on wine ... first wine route in South Africa. Johan explained, “This opened the door for wine tourism in the Cape which is today ...
Joao Silva/The New York Times Supported by By Selam Gebrekidan and Norimitsu Onishi STELLENBOSCH, South Africa — One cold ... mostly from the impoverished Eastern Cape Province.
Wine making was just one of countless professions Black South Africans were excluded ... and eat in and around Stellenbosch. “Edge Africa in Cape Town is wonderful,” Biyela says of the ...
Advert Vinmonopolet continues to sell wine from the Western Cape, however, for instance from its bestseller Robertson Winery (not one of the inspected farms, according to Hogstad), stating that they ...
Travelling around the wine regions you are surrounded by magnificent landscapes. Many of the South African vineyards are located within an easy distance from Cape Town. After an hour’s drive to ...