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I shot down to Bredasdorp yesterday as I had to apply in person at the Traffic Department for vehicle registration certificates for our truck and delivery bakkie. Bredasdorp is the centre of the Overberg’s wheat-growing and sheep-breeding valley and is an hour’s drive east of Cape Town.
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Visitors to Cape Town may get a slight surprise the first time they hear the Noon Gun firing at Lion Battery on Signal Hill. But they soon find, like most Capetonians, the boom at 12 o’clock six days a week to be reassuring that all is well in Cape Town. The tradition goes back to [...]
Read More: New vintages from Flagstone wines pay tribute to Cape Town’s maritime history
From over the barrels comes the evocative and unmistakable sound of Scotland. Winemaker Bruce Jack is overseeing the tradition of playing bagpipe music to his wine.
Ever since Flagstone started crafting wine in 1999 Hugh Veitch, a top bagpiper with the Cape Town Highlanders, has played to Bruce’s barrels four or five times a year. And [...]
Read More: Music for better mouth feel: Flagstone grapes soothed by bagpipe tradition
The John Platter South African Wine Guide is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and authoritative chronicle of who’s who and what’s what in South African wine country. Every year wine lovers pore over the latest edition to see how their favourite libations have been ranked. The good news is that Fish Hoek and Flagstone have both [...]
Read More: 2009 John Platter Wine Guide
Flagstone Wines earn top marks
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In July 2009 we moved our Tasting Room to the Doornbosch Centre in Strand Road, Stellenbosch
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