South African Wine Country Tour March 2009

     Our guide told us that there are 400 wineries in the Wellington Valley .  We saw many bush vines which grew close to the ground and produced red/black grapes. “The more sun, the more sugar.”
     We stopped at the Seidelburg Winery for a guided tour where  we tasted 5 varieties before proceeding to Fransch hoek (French corner) where a monument stood honoring the French Huguenots who started winemaking in this region before the French in Bordeaux.
     Drove on to Dieu Donne (God Given) Vineyards for more wine tasting before arriving at Stellenbosch which was full of Cape Dutch architecture dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
     All that wine in the middle of the day definitely made me sleepy.