The day before I booked a wine tour at the clock tower in the Waterfront. One of the nurses on the ship put a small group together and I decided to join in (yes, Semester at Sea is one of the few places you will probably drink with your professors and staff). So the wine tour would go through a total of six wineries in the Cape Winelands. We went to some of the best ones: Constantia & some in Stellenbosch.
Sunday was probably the best day to go wine tasting out of the whole week because the weather forecast was the best of the week. Our tour guide picked us up outside of the ship and we went to go pick up some non-SAS people who were coming along. In addition to four people from the ship, we had two old men who were really nice and this group of three young Australians (they were quite the entertainment the whole trip).
Our first stop was at Groot Constantia. We had a cellar tour and a tasting there. It was so much fun to see how they process the wine. And out of all the tasting, I think Constantia was the fanciest. Wine tasting in general just feels classy and fancy. So we had the cellar tour and the tasting, where one the ladies who worked there explained the order of drinking the wine, etc, etc. I had a little background on this because of my trip earlier this year to Napa Valley with TRENZA. But I enjoyed the refresher.
We had another tasting at Blaauwklippen Winelands which was outdoors so that was nice. Then, we went to Vrede en Lust, where we had a lunch and a tasting. The food there was absolutely delicious! I enjoyed the change from the food on the ship. Their winelands were also really, really nice-they had horse statues and fountains and a gorgeous landscape. Loved it.
Then, we went to our 4th stop, KWV. We arrived later than we were scheduled because the lunch took a while so it felt a little rushed. The wines here were my least favorite from the whole trip. I think I only drank 3 of the 6. On to our last stop (I forgot the name of it)! I was happy to see other Semester at Sea students who also booked wine tours independently. So we had our last tasting, we mingled, snapped some pics and went back to the ship. After five tasting, the car ride back was quite amusing to say the least.
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