This morning we started our day attempting to go up the cable car to table mountain. It was a beautiful morning with not cloud in the sky however due to strong winds the cable car wouldn't be working for the time being. Shoot! Well we weren't going to wait around to wonder when it would be fixed so we headed for the vineyard and began our South African wine tasting experience.
The first place we visited was called Vergelegen. Don't ask me how to pronounce this. I tried two Sauvignon blanc, a semillon, and a Shiraz. Good morning it's 10am we are wine tasting and we don't care. This place had beautiful gardens so after our tastings we walked around and headed to the next place.
The next place was called Waterford estate. Here we tried 3 wines paired nicely with 3 chocolates. Can you say heaven? We had a Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, and dessert heatherleigh. The first two chocolates were dark with one having salt and the last one was milk chocolate paired great with the dessert wine! I'm totally loving the South African wine country.
The third place we visited started out with lunch. We needed some food after these two tastings and if I wanted to continue to be able to drive safely. We stopped at J.C. Le Roux. This place is known for its bubbly, (just like champagne but don't call it that because it's not from France). We had 5 tastings here and they were all paired with marshmallows. Amazing! We're so lucky that we get to experience this right now.
After this third tasting we were pretty tired so we checked into our guest house which is on a wine estate in Franschhoek. It's a part of the wine country as well although we didn't visit any vineyards here. Stellenbosch is the main city or town for the wine country and the three places we went too were located there.
Today was actually an exhausting day even though we just ate and drank. It was really warm and actually not the best day to drink a lot of wine. Oh well!
Brooked the shark diving experience for Saturday. Watch out for the great whites!!
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