Passion and patience!On Tuesday 10 February the homeowners were invited to attend the Blessing of the Harvest.
During this event the home owners were introduced to the start of the winemaking process and they tasted the day’s harvest -this is in the form of almost pure grape juice. The men had to stir the grapes giving it oxygen while the women mixed the yeast going into the wine.
They were given some wine that had started the process of fermentation already so they could taste the difference in grapes/wine after two and three days.
After all this winemaking activities the home owners were invited to a dinner and of course some wine from the farm!
The home owners all agreed this is what living on a working wine farm should be like. Informative and enjoying the harvest from your own wine farm. This is the lifestyle others just dream about and we live it! Provided by Gerhard van Deventer (Seeff Resident Agent)
