Alok Chandra: South African safari

Few people know that South African wines are today the fourth-largest selling overseas wines in India after Australian, French and Italian wines

Think of South Africa and you normally get images of lions and elephants and wildlife safaris, the famous table mountain, and perhaps the more recently famous Sun City resort. Few people know that wines have been produced there for 350 years, not long after the Dutch settled around Cape Town in 1652: wine was as integral a part of European lifestyle then as it is now, and supply ships could never get enough wines to this far-away port. Constantia Estates, the first vineyard and winery in South Africa (set up on a mere 1,900 acres), was established in 1685 and its successors live on ...

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Alok Chandra: South African safari