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Not just launched, but website just up, is the Green Mountain Eco-route – the world’s first wine and biodiversity route. What does this mean? Simply that wine and food exploration are linked to eco-activities like hiking, biking, birding and general fun in the mountain. There is also a sustainability and preservation angle, and a jobs angle. What’s fun about it for me is that this is where I now live, in the curious town of Bot River, part of the route. Here, the wines of Beaumont are the vins de table, and the Bot River Hotel has great music on weekends and an eccentric restaurant.