Our first rainy day starts cool and wet. But finally makes sun and 19 degrees.
One area we have not yet visited is only an hour or so from the centre of Cape Town so its off south to this beautiful valley under the rocky extension of Table Mountain.
Groot Constance is a beautiful 350 year old estate best seen not in the rain I’m sure. But we enjoy a brief tasting of some nice wines then late lunch of fish cakes and salad in their small cafe.
We take the $10 tour and tasting and they throw in the Spiegelau glass. Cheaper than washing them I guess. We meet some nice people also filling in time on a rainy day. You can take the tourist get on/get off bus there so it’s quite popular.
We then visit Klein Constantia which is small and much classier and enjoy a tasting there in a very modern glass and steel tasting room. $10 for 5 tastes is enough. We get to try the Vin de Constance but at $109 a bottle, even if Napoleon ordered them by the case in exile, we pass on buying. In fact, it’s a special late harvest but no match for some of our BC wines. Or German for that matter.
Back home, we have a quiet evening, cooking up the fish, nice veggies and pie again.
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