Senior Morton's World Tour

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Cape wine lands

Posted by laurie and jill in Adventures on 05 14th, 2013

Monday 12
Today we set off inland into the mountains that surround Capetown to visit some wineries. Some of these places were established in the mid 1600’s so are very old and have beautiful gardens. Along the way we stopped off at butterfly world at Klapmuts

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There were many different colours and sizes and other animals too

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But we went there to taste wine and we did!!

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the gardens and views had to be seen to believed

We first visited Uitkyk past Kanonkop then Muriatie, where the Melck family have been since the 1600s. Then we visited Delheim, up through Helshoogte Pass to Delaire. We then had a look at Zorgvliet (where Lauren Baiocchi got married ) and had lunch at Vrede En Lust. All of these farms with the exception of Vrede en Lust are on the Stellenbosch wine route with fantastic views and some very nice wines. Fiona and I tasted and purchased quite a few

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What a fantastic day!