On Friday afternoon, the VAC team set up a wine tasting tour for anyone who wanted to join. We caught a van and headed up to Constantia and visited two wineries. The first winery we went to was Groot Constantia. It is a comercial winery, so really big and mechanical as to how they gave tours and tastings and all that. We got a tour, which was cool to see how they made wine there then had a tasting where the woman taught us how to smell and breathe and drink our wine.
The area up there is incredibly beautiful and we kept hearing that High Constantia, the winery we were headed to next, was a lot smaller and intimate so we were all looking forward to that. One of my housemates, Whit, is interning at High Constantia too, so we were excited to get to see his place. This winery was more like a little emtied out house with a back porch that we all got to sit on while they poured LARGE glasses of wine for us to drink. It was nice to just get to sit, relax, chat and drink delicious wine in a gorgeous setting. If I ever own a winery that’s how I’m doing it. I bought a bottle of Malbec that was really good. I think other people bought some wine too. Again, if I ever own a winery that’s how I’m doing it…liquor ‘em up, let ‘em relax and they’ll be more likely to buy the boooooze.
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