I am sure if you’ve been following us on twitter and Facebook, you might have picked up that were fond of a few things other than fynbos and wine…

Two which we are particularly fond of are beer and sport.

Going into every bottle of Haut Espoir is an element of the team here on the farm. We have a permanent work force of 14 guys who mean alot to us. The core ingredient in the magic we bottle. So this was a day off to focus on taking the team away from the normal routines, and a little bit of an adventure for us all. There was a little football tournament happening in Cape Town at the time. Semi Finals of sorts as well, we believed…

Last-minute-spur-of-the-moment-kind-of-thing we decided to take last Tuesday off and do the fan walk with the team. It being the last day to see the 2010 Fan Walk Cape Town for the big event. Since we had been giving the team off to watch games when they play during the day and since we are just spur-of-the-moment-people, we put raid to moms cottage, put on a boerie roll and had a good old fashioned laugh.

We saw fit to take the guys in to town for the day, which began early with a Puma & Union warm up.

And then on to the fan walk; we made a bee line straight for the stadium, vuvuzelas blasting at around twelve o clock and not stopping until we got there.

On the way we walked through the groves of Just Trees trees; those fever trees really do look stunning outside Truth Coffee.

And then back over the bridge; and this is where it turned really interesting. I thought we would head all the way back down into the heart of town and take in some of the fan fest build up; so we put it to the guys, who were by this stage relatively thirsty after the sprint to the stadium and back, where a unanimous decision was taken to head back to & Union for lunch and a few more #realbeers.

A great day out, and a big hats off to the guys, this is the team that is behind every bottle of wine we produce. Please do not see this as charity, these guys are an intergral part of the family essence of this farm and the entire team that aims to produce the best wines in the world. This was a celebration of an incredible few weeks in this amazing country, South Africa, where we hosted the world in a way that even the world was not quite ready for. The incredible energy that was in every corner, every nook and cranny of every city in South Africa. We felt honored to be able to take the day off and be a part of the experience in the environment it was most real.

Have a great weekend.