Most wine pundits are putting in some R&R in preparation for next week’s Cape Wine 2006 – the biggest expo for international guests in the Cape. Days of wine talk, wine tasting and wine business, I hope to find some wine fun to report on (or some interesting observations on the international wine club). With 350 wineries and over 4000 wines…
The theme is “diversity is in our nature” and the link is with the Cape’s immense bio-diversity, the idea being that if we can sustain so many plant species, imagine what diversity our vines can demonstrate. It’s beginning to happen, I think, now that the farmers are moving off the plains and proven soils of places like Stellenbosch. We may never replicate the monster vineyards of Australia (in case we had that weird vision), but we have pockets of fascinating sites. Small, but beautiful.
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