We arrived in Klawer, our first town in South Africa, located in the Western Cape Province.
Klawer means clover because of the wild clover blooming after a rainfall.
Vineyards are starting to make their appearance.
Artist Pierneef’s linocut depicting the region.
We pitched our tents in a beautiful setting overlooking the vineyards. Along with it came the activity of trucks and grapes being transported to the co-operative. There was a wine cellar on the property which offered wine tasting for a small fee. It introduced wines from the Klawer area.
South Africa is well known international for its wines as they have been growing it since 1652. Along with the arrival of French Huguenots, who also brought their own shoots with them, it added and developed the main winegrowing region of Stellenbosch, just outside of Cape Town.
Small producers can not maintain the standards of the larger more famous ones. Smaller farms who cannot make a profit are selling and leaving, while others form a co-operative. The emigration of winemakers to such places as Australia, New Zealand and Canada have left a void with the receiving countries to benefit from their knowledge. I did not like the local wines.
Another beautiful sunset and it looked like a large hand pointing to the direction of the Cape.
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