Wine Tasting at Eikendal and Solms Delta

For our Friday activity we went on another wine tasting escapade. First we hit up Eikendal, which is in Stellenbosch. This area is really beautiful (duh, wine country in Cape Town), and the tasting was really nice. The tasting was done indoors, which as you know from my first wine tasting post, is not my favourite. The wines were all really good and I’m regretting my decision to not buy the pinotage there.

Next we went to Solms Delta, which was out near Franshhoek. This winery was even more gorgeous and…wait for it…the tasting was outside! The guy who was giving it though was crazy and it took a million years to get our first tasting. He had some seriously nutty facial hair—like civil war style beard—and was more concerned with seeing who wanted the cheese and cracker plate than startin’ us off with the good stuff.

The high light of this tasting was their Cape Jazz Shiraz, which is a sparkling red wine. It was suuuper delicious (the only thing bad about normal sparkling wine is that it’s always white) and I want to see if I can get it anywhere in the states.

**look how short this entry is! I’m glad I could finally give you guys a break and I’m sorry for making you read medium length novels all the time. However, as I’m writing this I realize I’m just making it longer so I guess I’m not that sorry.